Predicative
Summary
A century of scholarly discussion has not reached a definite consensus on exactly what this means, and Principia Mathematica gives several different explanations of it that are not easy to reconcile. See the introduction and *12. *12 says that a predicative function is one with no apparent (bound) variables, in other words a matrix.
Further reading
- Wikipedia, page 43839113, revision 1368323132, Glossary of Principia Mathematica, section Glossary. adopted
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