predictable

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Let it be allowed me to call these pure, but deduced conceptions of the understanding, the predicables of the pure understanding, in contradistinction to predicaments.

From The Critique of Pure Reason by Meiklejohn, John Miller Dow

Primarily, the Five Predicables or Heads of Predicables—Genus, Species, Differentia, Proprium, and Accidens—are not predicables at all, but merely a list or enumeration of terms used in dividing and defining on the basis of attributes.

From Logic, Inductive and Deductive by Minto, William

The categories must be carefully distinguished from predicables; in the scholastic phraseology the former refer to first intentions, the latter to second intentions, i.e. the one denote real, the other logical connexion.

From Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 5, Slice 5 "Cat" to "Celt" by Various

Thus Aristotle's four heads of predicables may be split up, if we please, into nine—   1.

From Deductive Logic by Stock, St. George William Joseph

Species, in its now accepted meaning, signifies the relation of a smaller class to a larger one: as it was originally intended in the heads of predicables it signifies a class in reference to individuals.

From Deductive Logic by Stock, St. George William Joseph