predicate

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predicate englannista suomeksi

(senseid) The part of the sentence (or clause) which states a property that a subject has or is characterized by.

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A term of a statement, where the statement may be true or false depending on whether the thing referred to by the values of the statement's variables has the property signified by that (predicative) term.

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An operator or function that returns either true or false.
Of or related to the predicate of a sentence or clause.
Predicated, stated.
Relating to or being any of a series of criminal acts upon which prosecution for racketeering may be predicated.
To announce, assert, or proclaim publicly.
To assume or suppose; to infer.
(RQ:Dickens Tale of Two Cities)
(RQ:Hardy Laodicean)
to base (on); to assert on the grounds of.
1978, Michel Foucault, ''The Will to Knowledge'', trans. Robert Hurley (Penguin 1998, page 81):

The law is what constitutes both desire and the lack on which it is predicated.

To make a term (or expression) the predicate of a statement.
To assert or state as an attribute or quality of something.
1911, ''Encyclopedia Britannica'', Encyclopædia Britannica/Conceptualism|Conceptualism

This quality becomes real as a mental concept when it is predicated of all the objects possessing it (“quod de pluribus natum est praedicari”).