one of the two main constituents of a sentence; the predicate contains the verb and its complements | the branch of philosophy that analyzes inference |
(logic) what is predicated of the subject of a proposition; the second term in a proposition is predicated of the first term by means of the copula | a system of reasoning |
| reasoned and reasonable judgment |
| the principles that guide reasoning within a given field or situation |
| the system of operations performed by a computer that underlies the machine's representation of logical operations |