The phrase "a predicate for" is correct and usable in written English.
It is typically used in grammatical or logical contexts to refer to a statement or expression that asserts something about a subject.
Example: "In the sentence 'The cat is sleeping,' 'is sleeping' serves as a predicate for the subject 'the cat.'"
Alternatives: "a statement for" or "an assertion for".
Security is generally a predicate for growth and trade.
Federal law, by contrast, imposes no restriction on what felony can be considered a predicate for the gun charge.
David Frum coined George W. Bush's infamous phrase "axis of evil," in the speech that laid a predicate for war.
It also said there would be no immediate de-escalation of the military campaign as a predicate for negotiations.
Alternatively, lawmakers could settle on a serious but limited down payment, which could be a predicate for thrashing it out in 2012.
Takeaway: Misrepresentation cases are not limited to misrepresentations to clients; misrepresentations to the SEC, issuers and others may provide a predicate for enforcement actions.
In all cases, investigating and elaborating heuristics for reducing the complexity of refining a predicate abstraction for the considered problem is an interesting direction for future research.
Under the assumption that a provability predicate for a theory satisfies the derivability conditions (or, by Jeroslow's trick, at least D1 and D2) it is relatively easy to prove the relevant case of the second incompleteness theorem.
A predicate makes for imaginative resistance if the concept it expresses is of the type I have called "grokking," or response-enabled.
PartyGaming's float paperwork last year made clear that its activities "may violate state law and violations of state gaming laws can serve as a predicate offence for liability under federal statutes".
Recently it has made concessions, signing dozens of bilateral information accords and making tax evasion a "predicate" offence for money-laundering, which means it can be dealt with more sternly.
