Definition of predicable in English:
predicable
adjective ˈprɛdɪkəb(ə)lˈprɛdəkəb(ə)l
That may be predicated or affirmed.
Example sentencesExamples
- This is a way of quantifying how predicable the next word is.
- The postulate is that there exist classes which are determinate and therefore predicable.
- S responds well to consistency and enjoys the predicable sequence of Jewish days, festivals and diary dates.
noun ˈprɛdɪkəb(ə)lˈprɛdəkəb(ə)l
1A thing that is predicable.
Example sentencesExamples
- Enquiry into universals (and therefore into the five predicables studied in the Isagoge) should therefore be abandoned.
- In the ancient proposition of the schoolroom, ‘Socrates is mortal,’ the class of mortal beings is invoked as a predicable.
- 1.1usually predicables (in Aristotelian logic) each of the classes to which predicates belong, usually listed as genus, species, difference, property, and accident.
Example sentencesExamples
- Later commentators listed these four and the differentia as the five predicables, and as such they were of great importance to late ancient and to medieval philosophy.
- He does so by reminding us that ‘when we are attempting to discover whether something is the same as something which possessed some property at an earlier time, we need predicables of reidentification’.
Origin
Mid 16th century: from medieval Latin praedicabilis 'able to be affirmed', from Latin praedicare 'declare' (see predicate).
Definition of predicable in US English:
predicable
adjectiveˈpredəkəb(ə)lˈprɛdəkəb(ə)l
That may be predicated or affirmed.
Example sentencesExamples
- This is a way of quantifying how predicable the next word is.
- The postulate is that there exist classes which are determinate and therefore predicable.
- S responds well to consistency and enjoys the predicable sequence of Jewish days, festivals and diary dates.
nounˈpredəkəb(ə)lˈprɛdəkəb(ə)l
1A thing that is predicable.
Example sentencesExamples
- Enquiry into universals (and therefore into the five predicables studied in the Isagoge) should therefore be abandoned.
- In the ancient proposition of the schoolroom, ‘Socrates is mortal,’ the class of mortal beings is invoked as a predicable.
- 1.1usually predicables (in Aristotelian logic) each of the classes to which predicates belong, usually listed as genus, species, difference, property, and accident.
Example sentencesExamples
- He does so by reminding us that ‘when we are attempting to discover whether something is the same as something which possessed some property at an earlier time, we need predicables of reidentification’.
- Later commentators listed these four and the differentia as the five predicables, and as such they were of great importance to late ancient and to medieval philosophy.
Origin
Mid 16th century: from medieval Latin praedicabilis ‘able to be affirmed’, from Latin praedicare ‘declare’ (see predicate).