Definitions
from The Century Dictionary.
- That cannot be predicated or affirmed.
- That cannot be predicted.
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Examples
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But in my view, non-theistic religions suffer from paradoxes of impredication, e.g. Buddhists postulate “the emptiness of emptiness” which I believe is impredicable (takes too long to fully explain here).
Please Tell Me What “God” Means Sean 2007
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Thus, while animal is predicable of horse, and horse of Bucephalus, Bucephalus stands by himself, impredicable of, and hence, numerically different from anything else.
Continental Rationalism Lennon, Thomas M. 2007
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There is, no doubt, one constant element in the reckoning, namely, human nature, and perhaps another in human nature itself, -- the tendency to reaction from all extremes; but the way in which these shall operate, and the force they shall exert, are dependent on a multitude of new and impredicable circumstances.
The Writings of James Russell Lowell in Prose and Poetry, Volume V Political Essays James Russell Lowell 1855
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In Russell's terminology, the question whether the word ` impredicable 'is predicable or, alternatively, is impredicable
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(Perhaps a more accurate pair of terms would be ` self-impredicable 'and ` self-predicable.')
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Various logicians, among them pre-eminently Bertrand Russell, noted that the antinomies of logic tended to contain the concept that Mr. Pollock calls ` nonself-referring, 'and which in mathematics is usually called ` impredicable,' as contrasted with ` predicable. '
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