I. noun
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A state of the blocks world is portrayed as an assertion, formed with predicate symbols.
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Existence predicates are prime instruments for making such claims explicit.
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In addition to pronouns and agreeing predicates, person or participant-role is marked in various other ways.
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The condition is a predicate which is true of just those states N that the action can be applied to.
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The natural rules for this task have conditions which also include the predicate which checks that two things are different.
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This predicate is sometimes given in terms of an entity which occurs in goal states and not in others.
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Usually, conceptual clusterers employ the natural hierarchy of predicates directly, and make no mention of a metric.
II. verb
EXAMPLES FROM CORPUS
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But we never have occasion to predicate of an object the individual and instantaneous impressions which it produces in us.
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Furthermore, the protection from coercion which the market system provides is predicated upon the widespread dispersion of economic power.
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In this sense he was predicating his examination upon the operation of a self-regulating system for both state and private economy.
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It is not predicated on any such view.
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It is not individual qualities that we ever have occasion to predicate .
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It was predicated on a quack cure called powder of sympathy.
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Social norms, social expectations, are not predicated on abusive childhoods.
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The only meaning of predicating a quality at all, is to affirm a resemblance.