At this interval (the Suddenly) all predicates may be truly denied, but none can be truly affirmed.
We know that it is a common practice in our daily speech to apply many different predicates to one and the same subject.
Nevertheless the ingenious dialectic of Plato accomplishes the task, and elicits from each proposition a Both, and a Neither, respecting several predicates of Unum as well as of Caetera.
And if the predicates were multiplied, the contradiction became aggravated, because then you predicated identity not merely between one thing and another different thing, but between one thing and many different things.
We should not be able to affirm any predicates at all, of a subject incapable of being observed otherwise than piecemeal: much less could we extend those predicates by induction to other similar subjects.
We must suppose both propositions to be real, the predicates being in no way involved in the subject.
Almost all metaphysicians prior to Locke, as well as many since his time, have made a great mystery of Essential Predication, and of predicates which are said to be of the essence of the subject.
But in order that it may do so, it is necessary that the predicates should themselves retain their association with the properties which they severally connote.
The least elastic of the predicates of penal law are held at bay in all but a temerous few of America's secondary prisons.
In the first place, no set of men have legal authority to build to corrective procedure that runs counter to the binding predicates of penal law.
That won't do, so you switch and let fall your king card in challenge to him to square criminous conduct with the enacting predicates of divine law.
They adumbrate institutional farce made of the mandatory predicates of penal law, through marking time to the mental meanderings of chamois-skin criminologists.
This view closely corresponds with the fact that in Fürst's material the number of word-predicates increases with the age of the subjects experimented upon.
From experience I knew that such predicates always relate either to the test-person himself or to the person nearest to him.
The use of the conjunction saves a great deal of tiresome repetition, for, by its use, where two subjects have the same predicate or two predicates have the same subject, we can combine it all into one sentence.
Remember, however, that the simple sentences may contain two or more subjects with the same predicate, or two or more predicates with the same subject, or both a compound subject and a compound predicate.
Exercise 6 In the following sentences, the simple subjects and the simple predicates of the principal clauses are printed in italics.
Now we may make a compound subject, and say, The boys and girls sing and play, but we have still a single statement, for both predicates are asserted of both subjects.
Take the simple subjects and simple predicates in Exercise 5, and build up sentences; first, by adding a word, then a phrase and then a clause to modify the subject; then add a word and a phrase and a clause to modify the predicate.
The development of a theory of the ground on which subjects claim their predicates and disown alien predicates could not be long postponed.
In judgments, and therefore in propositions, indefinite predicates are the rule, quantified predicates the exception.
The two positions that a subject contains all its predicates and that all non-contingent propositions--i.
These arepredicates of the object known, ways of knowing it, rather than the object itself.
Truth and error are about the individual and attach or detach predicates correctly and incorrectly.
Consequently, A E I O are the normal propositions with indefinite predicates; whereas propositions with quantified predicates are only occasional forms, which we should use whenever we require to think the quantity of the predicate, e.
But it is only from a point of view won by later speculation that it can be said that they sought to determine the predicates of the single subject-reality, or to establish the permanent subject of varied and varying predicates.
Many of thepredicates of things express only the relations of the things to us and to our feelings.
Christians are the true Israel; and therefore all Israel's predicates of honour belong to them.
One of two opposite, contradictory predicates must belong to every subject.
But it is the will which alone judges according to the predicatesgood and evil.
The pure reason judges according to the predicates true and false.
Miss Jones[46] contends that there is no difficulty in admitting contradictory predicates concerning such an object as "the present King of France," on the ground that this object is in itself contradictory.
The dispute was not about polygamy; but about what predicates rendered a divorce legal.
For if things be subsumed under a concept that is merely problematical, its synthetical predicates (e.
For in the former case bodies need only be thought by means of ontological predicates (pure concepts of Understanding), e.
The concepts of the Understanding are of the former kind; they are determinable through predicates of sensible intuition which can correspond to them.
So far as I know, certain predicates of value are the only non-intrinsic properties which share with intrinsic properties this characteristic of depending only on the intrinsic nature of what possesses them.
In all three cases there are people who maintain that the predicates in question are purely "subjective," in a sense which can, I think, be fairly easily defined.
All other predicates were negative: it is not this, it is not that--it is beyond anything that we can conceive or name.
Berkeley attaches several predicates to the "perceiving active being mind, spirit, soul or myself" (Parts I.
Logical deduction from the predicates attached to the term "Nirvana" strips it of all reality, conceivability, or perceivability, whether by Gods or men.
The rule predicates something generally under a certain condition.
For the predicates of very great, astonishing, or immeasurable power and excellence, give us no determinate conception of the thing, nor do they inform us what the thing may be in itself.
Mathematics, on the other hand, may possess axioms, because it can always connect the predicates of an object a priori, and without any mediating term, by means of the construction of conceptions in intuition.
Footnote: The predicates of the phenomenon can be affixed to the object itself in relation to our sensuous faculty; for example, the red colour or the perfume to the rose.
But again, everything, as regards its possibility, is also subject to the principle of complete determination, according to which one of all the possible contradictory predicates of things must belong to it.
Since the Sceptic accuses Heraclitus of having rashly dogmatised, presenting on the one hand the doctrine of 'conflagration' and on the other that 'contradictory predicates are in reality applicable to the same thing.
In deliberating concerning the appearance of contradictory predicates in regard to the same object, he would naturally ask, "Whence come these contradictory appearances?
Contradictory predicates produce equilibrium in the soul because they are an expression of reality.
Hirzel says in addition, that contradictory predicates are in reality applicable to those phenomena which are the same for all, and consequently true, for Aenesidemus considered those phenomena true that are the same for all.
The Heraclitism of Aenesidemus would be then only in appearance, as he understood the statement, that "Contradictory predicates are in reality applicable to the same thing," only in the phenomenal sense.
As the Sceptics say that contradictory predicates appear to be applicable to the same thing, the Heraclitans come from this to the more positive doctrine that they are in reality so.
Beginning first with the objects, we derive from them the predicates by searching out the attributes; this done, we must in turn make the predicates our starting-point, and classify the objects under the heads thus obtained.
In it one would deny two contradictorily oppositepredicates of the subject of the judgment, but only because the whole category of these predicates would be inapplicable to that subject.
Of two contradictorily opposed predicates one must belong to every subject.
The above list will hopefully give you a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "predicates" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this word.
