predicable
that may be predicated or affirmed; assertable.
that which may be predicated; an attribute.
Logic. any one of the various kinds of predicate that may be used of a subject.
Origin of predicable
1Other words from predicable
- pred·i·ca·bil·i·ty, pred·i·ca·ble·ness, noun
- pred·i·ca·bly, adverb
- un·pred·i·ca·ble, adjective
- un·pred·i·ca·ble·ness, noun
- un·pred·i·ca·bly, adverb
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How to use predicable in a sentence
Classification (as resulting from the use of general language) is the subject of the Aristotelians' Five Predicables, viz.
Analysis of Mr. Mill's System of Logic | William StebbingThat is to say he describes them as Predicables simply by contradistinction from Singular names.
Logic, Inductive and Deductive | William MintoIt is a highly laboured account of the whole art of Disputation, laid out under his scheme of the Predicables.
Practical Essays | Alexander BainWe draw from the opening of his liber on the Predicables, that is to say, his exposition of Porphyrys Introduction.
The Mediaeval Mind (Volume II of II) | Henry Osborn Taylor(a) names and concepts, definition and division, predicables.
Cambridge | Mildred Anna Rosalie Tuker
British Dictionary definitions for predicable
/ (ˈprɛdɪkəbəl) /
capable of being predicated or asserted
a quality, attribute, etc, that can be predicated
logic obsolete one of the five Aristotelian classes of predicates (the five heads of predicables), namely genus, species, difference, property, and relation
Origin of predicable
1Derived forms of predicable
- predicability or predicableness, noun
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