pseudo-, predicate, subaltern, pseudonym, pseudoscience, eugenics

“Now, as you well know, it is not seldom the case in this conventional world of ours - watery or otherwise; that when a person placed in command over his fellow-men finds one of them to be very significantly his superior in general pride of manhood, straightway against that man he conceives an unconquerable dislike and bitterness; and if he have a chance he will pull down and pulverize that subaltern's tower, and make a little heap of dust of it.”
― from MOBY-DICK



On the government's nuclear policy, for instance, they said it was going to be difficult to keep promoting nuclear energy after the Fukushima disaster, but various economic considerations rendered any hasty decommissioning of existing nuclear reactors impossible. As for tax hikes, they are necessary given the current fiscal plight, they argued, but this is still not the right time to increase taxes.
Simply put, all three candidates were being "pragmatic." But their "pragmatism" was obviously predicated on maintaining the status quo.


Eugenics, Past and Future 優生學的過去和未來
By ROSS DOUTHAT

Will yesterday's pseudoscience become tomorrow's temptation?
Editorial
Welcome End of a Pseudotheory



The claims that homosexuality is a choice have been discredited now that a giant in psychiatry has renounced his own study that said gay people could be cured.

A Subaltern, A Description of the Ruined City of Mandu, the Ancient Capital of Malwa (Bombay: Bombay Times' Press, 1844), 121, 107. This is a revision of a work published under the pseudonym "Selim" in several issues of the Bombay Courier in 1839: 9 April, 20 April, 23 April, 27 April, 30 April. The Cave Temples of India identifies this wily Subaltern/Selim as one Lieutenant Blake (James Fergusson and James Burgess, The Cave Temples of India [London: W.H. Allen, 1880], 281).




"A Christmas Carol" was the first extended work of fiction that made its debut in the marketplace under the name Charles Dickens. Previously readers knew him as Boz, a pseudonym he'd begun using as a jobbing journalist. His novels to that point—including "The Pickwick Papers," "The Adventures of Oliver Twist" and "The Life and Adventures of Nicholas Nickleby"—had been serialized in cheap periodicals before appearing in book form. "A Christmas Carol" was published for the first time in a handsomely bound volume, an object to be treasured. And it was an immediate hit.



On the government's nuclear policy, for instance, they said it was going to be difficult to keep promoting nuclear energy after the Fukushima disaster, but various economic considerations rendered any hasty decommissioning of existing nuclear reactors impossible. As for tax hikes, they are necessary given the current fiscal plight, they argued, but this is still not the right time to increase taxes.
Simply put, all three candidates were being "pragmatic." But their "pragmatism" was obviously predicated on maintaining the status quo.

 pseudo-
 or pseud-
pref.

1. False; deceptive; sham: pseudoscience.
2. Apparently similar: pseudocoel.

[Greek, from pseudēs, false, from pseudein, to lie.]

pseudonym
pseu·do·nym (sūd'n-ĭm')
n.
A fictitious name, especially a pen name.

[French pseudonyme, from Greek pseudōnumon, neuter of pseudōnumos, falsely named : pseudēs, false; see pseudo- + onuma, name.]

pseudonymity pseu'do·nym'i·ty n.
pseudonymous pseu·don'y·mous (sū-dŏn'ə-məs) adj.
pseudonymously pseu·don'y·mous·ly adv.

subaltern

adj.

1. Lower in position or rank; secondary.
2. Chiefly British. Holding a military rank just below that of captain.
3. Logic. In the relation of a particular proposition to a universal with the same subject, predicate, and quality.

n.

1. A subordinate.
2. Chiefly British. A subaltern officer.
3. Logic. A subaltern proposition.

[French subalterne, from Old French, from Late Latin subalternus : Latin sub-, sub- + Latin alternus, alternate (from alter, other).]

n. - 次長, 中尉, 副官
adj. - 下的, 副的, 次的
日本語 (Japanese)
n. - 次官, 大尉より下位の将校, 少尉
adj. - 次位の, 部下の

predicate[pred・i・cate]

[動] 〔prédkèit〕 (他)((形式))

1 ((しばしば受身))((米))（事実・仮定に）…の基礎［根拠］を置く；…にかかっている((on, upon ...)).

2 …を（人・物の）属性であると断定する((of ...))；…を（…であると）断言［断定］する((to be)), …と断定する((that節))

predicate the eternity of human life ［＝predicate human life to be eternal/predicate that human life is eternal］
人間の命は永遠だと断言する

Kindness is predicated of a good teacher.
優しさはよい教師の一条件だ.

3 …を含意［暗示］する.

4 《論理学》…と（命題の主辞について）断定する；〈名辞を〉賓述する.

5 《文法》…を叙述する.

━━(自)断言［断定］する.

━━[形] 〔prédikt〕

1 《文法》述部［述語］の（⇔atributive）

a predicate verb
述語動詞

predicate adjective
叙述形容詞.

2 断定された；賓述された.

━━[名] 〔prédikt〕 ((通例the 〜))

1 《文法》述部, 述語. ⇒SUBJECT[名]5

2 《論理学》賓辞, 賓語, 属性.

［ラテン語praedicātus （praedicāre宣言する＋-tus過去分詞語尾＝宣言された）. △PREACH］

prèd・i・cá・tion

[名]断定；《論理学》賓述.