Predication vs Predicament - What's the difference?
predication | predicament |
A proclamation, announcement or preaching
An assertion or affirmation
* {{quote-web
, date = 1965-06-04
, author = Shigeyuki Kuroda
, title = Generative grammatical studies in the Japanese language
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, accessdate = 2014-02-24
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(logic) The act of making something the subject or predicate of a proposition
(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
A definite class, state or condition.
An unfortunate or trying position or condition; a tight spot.
* {{quote-book
, year=1978
, author=
, title=The Cultural Contradictions of Capitalism
, page=xv (20th edition)
, passage=Culture, for me, is the effort to provide a coherent set of answers to the existential predicaments that confront all human beings in the passage of their life.}}
* {{quote-news
, year=2011
, date=December 10
, author=Marc Higginson
, title=Bolton 1 - 2 Aston Villa
, work=BBC Sport
(logic) That which is predicated; a category.
As nouns the difference between predication and predicament
is that predication is predication while predicament is a definite class, state or condition.predication
English
Noun
(en noun)- It can be immediately observed from these sentences that the English subject of a predication is translated in Japanese with a wa-phrase, while the subject of a nonpredicational description appears as a ga-phrase.
See also
* predictionReferences
* OED 2nd edition 1989predicament
English
Alternative forms
* (chiefly obsolete)Noun
(en noun)citation, page= , passage=The Midlanders will hope the victory will kickstart a campaign that looked to have hit the buffers, but the sense of trepidation enveloping the Reebok Stadium heading into the new year underlines the seriousness of the predicament facing Owen Coyle's men.}}