Antepredicament

Antepredicaments, in logic, are 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 Aristotle treated them before the "predicaments", hoping that the thread of discourse might not afterwards be interrupted.