What is a Prolog predicate?
Similarly, it is asked, what is a rule in Prolog?
So far we haven't really been doing any programming, just defining objects and their properties. The first step to programming in prolog is the use of rules. With rules we state that a predicate is true, provided that other predicates are true. A rule looks like this: a :- b, c, d.
Similarly, it is asked, how do you define a predicate?
The predicate of a sentence is the part that modifies the subject in some way. Because the subject is the person, place, or thing that a sentence is about, the predicate must contain a verb explaining what the subject does and can also include a modifier.
[ISO]+ :Goal. True if'Goal' cannot be proven (mnemonic: + refers to provable and the backslash ( ) is normally used to indicate negation in Prolog).