Definition of "predicatively" [predicatively]

• As a predicate; giving information about the subject of a sentence. (adverb)

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• "But whereas the full power set operation is iterated to obtain the cumulative hierarchy, the levels of the constructible hierarchy are defined strictly predicatively, that is by including at the next level only those sets which are first order definable using parameters from the previous level."
• "The explanation of “secondary intelligibles” is that man Conceives the realities of things (haqâ'iq al-ashyâ™) in the first place, then qualifies some with others either restrictively or predicatively (hukman taqyîdiyyan aw khabariyyan)."
• "Feferman, for instance, argues that all the mathematical theories that are essentially used in our currently best scientific theories are predicatively reducible (Feferman 2005)."