| 释义 |
prediˈcational, a.
[f. predication + -al.]
Of or pertaining to predication.
1894J. Venn Symbolic Logic (ed. 2) ii. 59 It..concluded, in the predicational form,—using ‘is’ instead of ‘is identical with’. 1921W. E. Johnson Logic I. xiv. 237 Giving added significance to the predicational factor by bringing out the relation of an adjective to its determinable. 1922Ibid. II. iii. 56 A function is called predicational when the component that determines its form is the characterising tie, which unites two variants related to one another as substantive to adjective. 1953K. Britton J. S. Mill vi. 194 I say ‘This snow is white’... The predicational form of sentence indicates this connexion [between whiteness and the other qualities of snow]: whereas ‘There is snow and noise’ does not—it is not asserted that the snow is noisy. 1955[see predicate calculus s.v. predicate n. 3]. 1961Brno Studies in English III. 15 The unwarranted assumption that any word taken by itself must possess an independent predicational function. 1978Language LIV. 90 Quantification is often predicational (i.e. with adjectives) in Japanese. |