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(Gr. Kamyopia.) In Logic and Metaphysics,aGreek word, signifying originally (hat which may be said or predicated of a thing; a general term in reference to a le general one which is included under it. By Aristotle, from whom the word, and its corresponding Latin term predicate, was borrowed by the schoolmen, it was applied to denote the most general of the attributes that may be a igned to a subject. Of these he attempted an enumeration, under the name of substance, quantity, quality, relation, place, time, condition, state or habitude, action, and pa ion. The word has been revived in modern times by Kant, to expre the most general of the [s. 216]