All 5 Uses of
predicated
in
Zen and the Art of Motorcycle Maintenance
- 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:
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(1)
(predicated as in: predicated upon) to indicate that something is a necessary condition for another thing to be true or to happen
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(2)
(meaning too rare to warrant focus) 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.