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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 (

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Lat. praedicare) of anything, in
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logic, one of the ten Aristotelian categories (see
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CATEGORY), and so any definite
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state or
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condition .

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