Associations to the word «Predication»

Wiktionary

PREDICATION, noun. A proclamation, announcement or preaching
PREDICATION, noun. An assertion or affirmation
PREDICATION, noun. (logic) The act of making something the subject or predicate of a proposition
PREDICATION, noun. (computing) The parallel execution of all possible outcomes of a branch instruction, all except one of which are discarded after the branch condition has been evaluated

Dictionary definition

PREDICATION, noun. (logic) a declaration of something self-evident; something that can be assumed as the basis for argument.

Wise words

Abuse of words has been the great instrument of sophistry and chicanery, of party, faction, and division of society.
John Adams