Definition of "predicates" [predicates]

• Plural form of predicate. (noun)
• Third-person singular simple present indicative form of predicate. (verb)

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• "B-ruin predicates these forecasts on 3 ERRONEOUS ASSUMPTIONS:"
• "Functions like f are called predicates, they represent conditions and return a boolean value."
• "In fact, this simultaneous adoption by the genre’s writers, readers and theorists of SF’s self-declared “rationalist” agenda, and their clear-sightedness about the spuriousness of its predicates, is an important reminder of the fact that the purchase of ideology, in all spheres, is dependent on the persuasive power not of its specific and explicit truth-claims, but of the ideological project as a self-sustaining totality."