All 5 Uses
predicated
in
Zen and the Art of Motorcycle Maintenance
(Auto-generated)
- The process of philosophic explanation is an analytic process, a process of breaking something down into subjects and predicates.†
Part 3 *
- What I mean (and everybody else means) by the word quality cannot be broken down into subjects and predicates.†
Part 3
- Thus, in cultures whose ancestry includes ancient Greece, one invariably finds a strong subject-object differentiation because the grammar of the old Greek mythos presumed a sharp natural division of subjects and predicates.†
Part 4
- Here were encyclopedic sentences that left subject and predicate completely out of shouting distance.†
Part 4
- In cultures such as the Chinese, where subject-predicate relationships are not rigidly defined by grammar, one finds a corresponding absence of rigid subject-object philosophy.†
Part 4
Definitions:
-
(1)
(predicated as in: predicated upon) to indicate that something is a necessary condition for another thing to be true or to happen
-
(2)
(meaning too rare to warrant focus) The noun form predicate is also used with many other meanings. For example, it refers to one of the two main parts of any sentence.
A comprehensive dictionary will have more specialized definitions such as one used in formal logic.