If you say that one situation is predicated on another, you mean that the first situation can be true or real only if the second one is true or real. Financial success is usually predicated on having money or being able to obtain it. the part of a sentence that makes a statement about the subject, such as 'swim' in 'Fish swim' and 'is an artist' in 'She is an artist' subject. be predicated on/upon sth if an action or event is predicated on a belief or situation, it is based on it or depends on it
A logical expression which evaluates to TRUE or FALSE, normally to direct the execution path in code
The word or words in a proposition which express what is affirmed of the subject
Line found in a Prolog Knowledge Base that follows a certain syntax May be numbered Used to store information, or algorithms, which can then be used to calculate something from other information The information these predicates contain is referred to by queries, entered by the user, to find information about a certain entity
one of the two main constituents of a sentence; the predicate contains the verb and its complements (logic) what is predicated of the subject of a proposition; the second term in a proposition is predicated of the first term by means of the copula; "`Socrates is a man' predicates manhood of Socrates"
In some systems of grammar, the predicate of a clause is the part of it that is not the subject. For example, in `I decided what to do', `decided what to do' is the predicate
the part of a sentence which is not the subject but which gives information about the subject, for example, in: The parents attended a meeting 'attended a meeting' is the predicate