predication
Example Sentences
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Raymond N. Hulser, a prosecutor in charge of the public integrity section at the time, told Mr. Durham that the Washington case that was based on the book lacked predication.
From New York Times ● May 22, 2023
“The investigation was opened with appropriate predication and authorization.”
From Washington Post ● Jun. 1, 2022
FBI assistant director Jill C. Tyson replied in a December 2021 letter that although the bureau’s assessments “do not require a particular factual predication, they do require an authorized purpose.”
From Washington Times ● Jan. 14, 2022
“Notwithstanding whether there was sufficient predication for the leak investigation itself, including family members and minor children strikes me as extremely aggressive,” said David Laufman, a former Justice Department official who worked on leak investigations.
From Seattle Times ● Jun. 10, 2021
Moreover, an abstract One is unthinkable and unknowable, because all thought and knowledge consist in applying predicates to subjects, and all predication involves the duality of its subject.
From A Critical History of Greek Philosophy by W. T. (Walter Terence) Stace
