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Predicate :: Predicate (v. t.) To assert to belong to something; to affirm (one thing of another); as, to predicate whiteness of snow..

Issue :: Issue (n.) In pleading, a single material point of law or fact depending in the suit, which, being affirmed on the one side and denied on the other, is presented for determination. See General issue, under General, and Feigned issue, under Feigned..

Let :: Let (v. t.) To permit; to allow; to suffer; -- either affirmatively, by positive act, or negatively, by neglecting to restrain or prevent..

Universal :: Universal (a.) Forming the whole of a genus; relatively unlimited in extension; affirmed or denied of the whole of a subject; as, a universal proposition; -- opposed to particular; e. g. (universal affirmative) All men are animals; (universal negative) No men are omniscient..

Proposition :: Proposition (n.) That which is offered or affirmed as the subject of the discourse; anything stated or affirmed for discussion or illustration.

Testify :: Testify (v. t.) To affirm or declare under oath or affirmation before a tribunal, in order to prove some fact..

Disaffirmation :: Disaffirmation (n.) The act of disaffirming; negation; refutation.

Reaffirm :: Reaffirm (v. t.) To affirm again.

Subject :: Subject (a.) That of which anything is affirmed or predicated; the theme of a proposition or discourse; that which is spoken of; as, the nominative case is the subject of the verb..

Categorically :: Categorically (adv.) Absolutely; directly; expressly; positively; as, to affirm categorically..

Affirm :: Affirm (v. t.) To assert positively; to tell with confidence; to aver; to maintain as true; -- opposed to deny.

Pronounce :: Pronounce (v. t.) To declare or affirm; as, he pronounced the book to be a libel; he pronounced the act to be a fraud..

Predication :: Predication (n.) The act of predicating, or of affirming one thing of another; affirmation; assertion..

Barbara :: Barbara (n.) The first word in certain mnemonic lines which represent the various forms of the syllogism. It indicates a syllogism whose three propositions are universal affirmatives.

Affirmation :: Affirmation (n.) Confirmation of anything established; ratification; as, the affirmation of a law..

Denial :: Denial (n.) The act of gainsaying, refusing, or disowning; negation; -- the contrary of affirmation..

Obversion :: Obversion (n.) The act of immediate inference, by which we deny the opposite of anything which has been affirmed; as, all men are mortal; then, by obversion, no men are immortal. This is also described as immediate inference by privative conception..

Trilemma :: Trilemma (n.) A syllogism with three conditional propositions, the major premises of which are disjunctively affirmed in the minor. See Dilemma..

Alleger :: Alleger (n.) One who affirms or declares.

Affirmative :: Affirmative (a.) That affirms; asserting that the fact is so; declaratory of what exists; answering yes to a question; -- opposed to negative; as, an affirmative answer; an affirmative vote..

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