From the truth, then, of any proposition predicating a given term, we may infer the falsity of all propositions predicating the contrary terms in the same relation.
But, on the other hand, from the falsity of a proposition predicating a given term, we cannot infer the truth of the predication of any particular contrary term.
He is spoken of as the Good, not as predicating an attribute or quality of Him, but to indicate that He is the Good itself.
Besides, if (Aristotle) said that the property characteristic of quantities is to enable them to be called equal or unequal, this does not conflict with predicating similarity of some of them.
It will further be suggested (by followers of Aristotle) that we stop at Intelligence, predicating goodness of it.
In predicating something concerning either you or I, a positive assertion is made concerning one of two.
Whether we say 'Man is an animal' or 'Man is rational,' we are equally understood to bepredicating a genus.
We prove that C has or has not the property A by predicating of it B, which we know to possess or not to possess that property.
The habit of predicating of the name, all the various properties which it originally connoted, keeps up the association between the name and those properties.
But since this is predicable of all, there is seldom any necessity for predicating it of any one man or knot of men in particular.
So that when we affirm a negative name, what we are really predicating is absence and not presence; we are asserting not that anything is, but that something is not; to express which operation no word seems so proper as the word denying.
A mode of determining whether any set of words makes only one name, or more than one, is by predicating something of it, and observing whether, by this predication, we make only one assertion or several.
Now when the class-name is predicated of any object of this description, we do, by so predicating it, affirm resemblance and nothing more.
But in predicating the name we predicate only the attributes; and the fact of belonging to a class does not, in ordinary cases, come into view at all.
That we are conscious of them however in their character of things, and not of mere signs, is evident from the fact that our whole process of reasoning is carried on by predicating of them the properties of things.
The First or Complete Ens embodies in itself all the Predicaments, though as yet potential and indeterminate, until the predicatingadjuncts are specified.
To set out a proprium well, that which is predicated ought to be clearer and better known than the subject of which it is predicated, since the purpose of predicating the proprium is to communicate knowledge.
Therefore, in the very act of naming we are virtually predicating existence of the thing named: the power to “think is” is the power concerned in the formation of a concept, not in the apposing of concepts when formed.
But though outwardly alike, they are conceived as different from substantives the moment they are used in a sentence for the purpose of predicating or of qualifying a substantive.
No doubt it is to the latter kind of self-consciousness alone that the term is strictly applicable, just as it is to conceptual naming or to conceptual predicating alone that the word “judgment” is strictly applicable.
For whenever we bestow a name we are implicitly judging that the thing to which we apply the name presents the attributes connoted by that name, and thus we are virtually predicating the fact.
It is well known that the names of Indians are almost always connotive, and particularly that they generally refer to some animal, predicatingoften some attribute or position of that animal.
That we are conscious of them, however, in their character of things, and not of mere signs, is evident from the fact that our whole process of reasoning is carried on by predicating of them the properties of things.
So that when we affirm a negative name, what we are really predicating is absence and not presence; we are asserting not that any thing is, but that something is not; to express which operation no word seems so proper as the word denying.
But in predicatingthe name we predicate only the attributes; and the fact of belonging to a class does not, in many cases, come into view at all.
With respect to the minor premise in its formal shape, the minor as it stands in the syllogism, predicating of Socrates a definite class name, I readily admit that it is no more a necessary part of reasoning than the major.
So that when we affirm a negative name, what we are really predicating is absence and not presence; we are asserting not that anything is, but that something is not; to express which operation no word seems so proper as the word denying.
Presumably they had no such information, nor had they either chart or compass to guide them,--a circumstance which Mr. Darwin has not sufficiently taken into account in predicating intelligence of his favorite pedestrians.
Force, according to their theory, is only another name for motion or its correlates, and, hence, the two terms are interchangeably used by them in predicating their ultimate conclusions respecting matter.
Besides, the Bible Genesis answers to the logical necessity of predicating a determinate cause for each and every vital effect, or each living organism apparently springing from plasmic conditions or mere structureless matter.
Then we sometimes hear people talk about predicating an action upon certain information or upon somebody's statement.
That we are conscious of the numbers or symbols, in their character of things, and not of mere signs, is shown by the fact that our whole process of reasoning is carried on by predicating of them the properties of things.
But, in predicating the name, we predicate only the attributes; and even when a name (as, e.
The above list will hopefully give you a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "predicating" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this word.
