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noun Logic.

functional calculus.

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Also called predicate logic.

Origin of predicate calculus

First recorded in 1945–50

Words nearby predicate calculus

predicable, predicament, predicant, predicate, predicate adjective, predicate calculus, predicate nominative, predicate noun, predicate objective, predication, predicative

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How to use predicate calculus in a sentence

Hongkongers aren't asking to secede from China, but Beijing's faulty calculus is only alienating the city.
Is Hong Kong Tiananmen 2.0?|Brendon Hong|September 29, 2014|DAILY BEAST
She jumped at the chance to watch RT, or jumped at the chance to skip calculus homework.
Up To a Point: Binge Watching Putin's Propaganda Network|P. J. O’Rourke|September 20, 2014|DAILY BEAST
Instead the real defining issue—class—does not fit so easily into the current political calculus.
Class Issues, Not Race, Will Likely Seal the Next Election|Joel Kotkin|September 7, 2014|DAILY BEAST
With other emerging allies the calculus is trickier and leaves less margin for error.
America Has an Unannounced ISIS Strategy, And It Involves Iran|Jacob Siegel|September 6, 2014|DAILY BEAST

Politics also played a role in the calculus of the Arab Muslims who supported ISIS.
On the Ground, Collaborators With ISIS Could Be Its Big Weakness|Christine van den Toorn|August 30, 2014|DAILY BEAST
Considerable hemorrhages from the bladder may occur in vesical calculus, tuberculosis, and newgrowths.
A Manual of Clinical Diagnosis|James Campbell Todd
You,” said I. “You drive a nail as if it were an abstruse problem in differential calculus.
The Idyl of Twin Fires|Walter Prichard Eaton
The major term is usually the predicate of the major premise and the predicate of the conclusion.
English: Composition and Literature|W. F. (William Franklin) Webster
An argument that uses as a premise such a cause may predicate its effect as a conclusion with absolute certainty.
English: Composition and Literature|W. F. (William Franklin) Webster
Forcing the subject toward the position usually occupied by the predicate emphasizes the subject.
English: Composition and Literature|W. F. (William Franklin) Webster

British Dictionary definitions for predicate calculus

predicate calculus

noun

the system of symbolic logic concerned not only with relations between propositions as wholes but also with the representation by symbols of individuals and predicates in propositions and with quantification over individualsAlso called: functional calculus See also propositional calculus

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