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predicate calculus

noun

Definition of PREDICATE CALCULUS

:  the branch of symbolic logic that uses symbols for quantifiers and for arguments and predicates of propositions as well as for unanalyzed propositions and logical connectives —called also functional calculus — compare propositional calculus
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First Known Use of PREDICATE CALCULUS

1950

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