ANTEPREDICAMENTS, in Logic, certain previous Matters, requisite to a more easy and clear apprehension of the Doctrine of Predicaments or Categories. Such are Definitions of Common Terms; as Equivocals, Univocals, etc., with Divisions of Things, their Differences, etc. They are thus called because treated by Aristotle before the Predicaments; that the Thread of the Discourse might not afterwards be interrupted.
