12349 | Only what can be said of many things is a predicable [Aristotle, by Wedin] |
11837 | Some predicates signify qualification of a substance, others the substance itself [Aristotle] |
5107 | Predicates are substance, quality, place, relation, quantity and action or affection [Aristotle] |
20786 | Predicates are incomplete 'lekta' [Stoic school, by Diog. Laertius] |
15383 | Nothing external can truly be predicated of an object [Abelard, by Panaccio] |
11206 | The mind constructs complete attributions, based on the unified elements of the real world [Aquinas] |
9022 | Russell uses 'propositional function' to refer to both predicates and to attributes [Quine on Russell] |
16932 | Projectible predicates can be universalised about the kind to which they refer [Quine] |
19159 | Quine relates predicates to their objects, by being 'true of' them [Quine, by Davidson] |
9281 | The idea of a predicate matches a range of things to which it can be applied [Strawson,P] |
8533 | Predicates need ontological correlates to ensure that they apply [Armstrong] |
4035 | There must be some explanation of why certain predicates are applicable to certain objects [Armstrong] |
5457 | Predicates assert properties, values, denials, relations, conventions, existence and fabrications [Ellis, by PG] |
19156 | Modern predicates have 'places', and are sentences with singular terms deleted from the places [Davidson] |
19176 | The concept of truth can explain predication [Davidson] |
6995 | Successful predication supervenes on nature [Jackson] |
4572 | If predicates name things, that reduces every sentence to a mere list of names [Cooper,DE] |
13363 | A (modern) predicate is the result of leaving a gap for the name in a sentence [Bostock] |
17857 | We can accept Frege's idea of object without assuming that predicates have a reference [Wright,C] |
18536 | The subject-predicate form reflects reality [Heil] |
10401 | The F and G of logic cover a huge range of natural language combinations [Swoyer] |
8471 | Three ways for 'Socrates is human' to be true are nominalist, platonist, or Montague's way [Orenstein] |
21658 | Properties can be expressed in a language despite the absence of a single word for them [Hofweber] |
21659 | 'Being taller than this' is a predicate which can express many different properties [Hofweber] |
10634 | Predicates are 'distributive' or 'non-distributive'; do individuals do what the group does? [Linnebo] |