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PREDICAMENT

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Originally appearing in Volume V22, Page 276 of the 1911 Encyclopedia Britannica.

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PREDICAMENT , now used only in the sense of a dangerous or unpleasant position or situation . It meant properly that which is " predicated " or affirmed (See also:

Lat. praedicare) of anything, in See also:

LOGIC (Xoy1K7, sc. rixvrt, the art of reasoning)

logic, one of the ten Aristotelian categories (see See also:

CATEGORY (Gr. Karrlyopia, " accusation ")

CATEGORY), and so any definite See also:

state or See also:

CONDITION (Lat. condicio, from condicere, to agree upon, arrange; not connected with conditio, from condere, conditum, to put together)

condition .

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