It continues predicable as long as the terms continue.
Sun, God, are really general names, though happening to be predicable only of a single object.
In Description, any one or a combination of attributes may be given, the object being to make it exactly coextensive with the name, so as to be predicable of the same things.
Many things are said of him which are predicable of his human nature only, but which nevertheless could not be said if he was not both God and man in one Person.
Other things are said of the same Person, which are predicable only of his Divine Nature; as that he came down from heaven, that he came forth from God, and that he was in the beginning.
The Antinomy is a combination of arguments by which contradictory attributes are proved to be predicable of the same subject.
So that here again, by this ambiguity, terms that seem contradictory are predicable of the same subject, but not "in the same relation.
The transcendentia or transcendentalia are those concepts which so transcend the categories as to be themselves predicable of the categories.
This may seem to imply that existence is predicable of the transcendental self.
Hamilton distinctly tells us that there is one sense of the term absolute in which it is contradictory of the infinite, and therefore is not predicable of God at all.
How can the incomprehensible and unknowable Brahma, be designated as the creator, when he is not predicable by any of the predicates of the creator or created or as the instrument or cause of anything.
Thou art contained under no particular category, nor is there any predicable which may be predicated of thee.
It becomes clear, therefore, that if it be at all true that "actions take moral character from their motives," this character must be predicable of these motive sensibilities.
And the so-called particular idea is unimportant, not because it is not predicable of the whole species, but because it is predicable of things out of that species.
This was a very general truth indeed, a truth predicable of the Bible in common with many other books, but it certainly is neither striking nor important.
The human mind has never been able to conceive these contradictory opposites as predicable of the same subject.
Thus do we find that all dignity, all sacredness, all responsibility, all morality belong to and are predicable only of the personal being, because intelligence and freedom are the essential moments of personality.
Thus the mystic can consistently deny that man's moral goodness or badness can be predicable of God, while at the same time he affirms man's intrinsic divinity and God's intrinsic humanity.
Are then these virtuespredicable of it even as such?
Virtues are no more predicable of the perfect virtue than vices of the perfect vice.
You the orthodox, and you the reasoners, assert through the mouths of your churches or philosophies that purely human virtues are actually predicable of Christ, and appeal for evidence to his life and death.
That which we have to determine is, whether ideality be predicable of the fine oaks only, or whether the poor and mean oaks also may be considered as ideal, that is, coming up to the conditions of oak, and the general notion of oak.
On the other hand, the respondent may perhaps deny that something inherent in the subject is a proprium: you may then refute him by showing that it is truly predicable of the subject only, and not truly predicable of any thing else.
Subject, but is not predicated of a Subject; this particular white colour exists in some given body, but is not predicable of any body.
On the other hand, if he denies something to be a proprium, you will refute him by showing that, though it is not contained in the essence of the subject, it is nevertheless predicable co-extensively therewith.
New relations may become predicable of a thing, without any change in the thing itself, but simply by changes in other things.
We may even know that A is predicable of all B, and that B is predicable of all C; and yet we may believe that A is not predicable of C.
You may know that A is predicable of all B, and that B is predicable of all D; but you may at the same time believe (erroneously) that A is not predicable of any C, and that C is predicable of all D.
Again, when A and B are predicable of all C, and when C reciprocates with B, then A must also be predicable of all B.
And if infinite power is predicable upon this central point, why not infinite intelligence also?
Spontaneity, in a strictly scientific sense, is not predicable upon the artificial or chance sowing of either acorns, hickory nuts, or the chits to pine cones.
Smell a rat also implies a general name, meaning an act or state predicableof many individuals.
Whatever ispredicable of a whole distributively is predicable of all its several parts.
The Axiom of Inductive Argument is, What is predicated of every one of the parts is predicable of the whole.
This is the simple converse of the Axiom of Deductive argument, the Dictum de Omni, "What is predicated of the whole is predicable about every one of the parts".
Further, the collective name can be predicated only of the whole group, as a whole; the general name is predicable of each, distributively.
General names are predicable of individuals because they possess certain attributes: to predicate the possession of those attributes is the same thing as to predicate the general name.
In whatever quantity it is contained in the Middle, in that quantity is the predicate of the Middle predicable of it.
So conversely he proved not-being to be predicable of that which is.
On the other side they are wrong, because by the idea or form which they maintain to be separate they mean the one attribute predicable of many things.
It is therefore the less matter of wonder that Plato should not here advert to the relation between the two, or to the different sense in which existence might properly be predicable of both.
In explanation, we remark that (a) This definition regards sin as predicable only of rational and voluntary agents.
The idea that responsibility and sin are predicable of actions merely is only consistent with an utter denial that man's nature as such owes anything to God, or has an office to perform in showing forth his glory.
Then it is, on this theory, a free act no longer, and is not guilty, since guilt is predicable only of voluntary transgression of known law.
The term distinguished is predicable indeed of each of the members, but of each in a different sense.
In a partition the name of the whole is notpredicable of each of the parts.
A predicable is something which can be stated of a subject.
In enumeration, as in division, the wider term is predicable of each of the narrower ones.
Moral certainty, then, is predicable only of moral perfection, and predicable in degrees according to the dignity and excellency of the being.
The genus must always bepredicable of every individual component of every species contained under it.
But this summum genus must be predicable of this whole.
That everything predicable of the universal was predicable of the various individuals contained under it, was then no identical proposition, but a statement of what was conceived as a fundamental law of the universe.
In this manner any fact, or series of facts, in which two different objects are implicated, and which is therefore predicable of both of them, may be either considered as constituting an attribute of the one, or an attribute of the other.
But there is another kind of names, which although they are individual names, that is, predicable only of one object, are really connotative.
From the fact that the genus includes the species, in other words denotes more than the species, or is predicableof a greater number of individuals, it follows that the species must connote more than the genus.
The above list will hopefully give you a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "predicable" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this word.
