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noun
Predicable  n.  
1.
Anything affirmable of another; especially, a general attribute or notion as affirmable of, or applicable to, many individuals.
2.
(Logic) One of the five most general relations of attributes involved in logical arrangements, namely, genus, species, difference, property, and accident.





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"Predicable" Quotes from Famous Books



... particularizing attributes, until at last we reach Being—the absolute summum genus, wholly free from individual attributes, and thereby embracing everything possible to thought, whether material or immaterial. But this summum genus must be predicable of this whole. Matter and mind may thus be reduced to a single category, and the physical and the intellectual finally coalesce in this last generalization. Materialism and idealism thus differ merely in the degree of generalization reached—or rather they both agree in avoiding the final generalization ...
— The Philosophy of Evolution - and The Metaphysical Basis of Science • Stephen H. Carpenter
... Non-slaveholding States, with a free population considerably more than double that of the Slave-holding States, and with much more generally distributed wealth and opportunities of spending, pay far more than the proportion predicable on mere preponderance in numbers of the expenses of a government supported mainly by a tariff on importations. And it is not the burden of this difference merely that the new Cotton Republic must assume. They will need as large, probably a larger, army ...
— Atlantic Monthly Volume 7, No. 40, February, 1861 • Various
... might seem, with all knowledge, here uses the word "causeless" in its strict philosophical sense;—cause being truly predicable only of phenomena, that is, things natural, and not ...
— Shakespeare, Ben Jonson, Beaumont and Fletcher • S. T. Coleridge
... settled, I proceed to observe that the concatenation of self-existence, proceeding in a reciprocal duplicate ratio, naturally produces a problematical dialogism, which in some measure proves that the essence of spirituality may be referred to the second predicable. ...
— Familiar Quotations • John Bartlett


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