A great deal of Java programming -- from conditional statements to iterative loops -- deals with the evaluation of true or false values. When you work with the JDK's Streams API and Lambda functions, ...

Happy is the main lexical predicate here. It takes one argument: an experiencer--John. Tall takes one argument: a theme: Mary. (12) *John is being tall. (13) *Mary is being fond of red roses. (14) ...

Community driven content discussing all aspects of software development from DevOps to design patterns. Many developers get intimidated when they look at all the new APIs that accept lambda ...

A non-technical friend of mine once asked me to explain, in layman's language, the legal term "laying the predicate". It was very difficult. After so much effort he was apparently satisfied when I ...

Linguistics and Philosophy, Vol. 26, No. 5 (Oct., 2003), pp. 595-635 (41 pages) Ryle (1949, Chapter V) discusses a range of predicates which in different ways exemplify a property I shall call ...