Those who had to do with him told me much of his continual penitence and prayer, and especially of his poverty and disinterestedness in temporal affairs, for which he was notable.
Every one fancies that he knows what is beneficial: mischiefs of ignorance 14 Mistake in predications about ignorance generally.
Although equivocal predications must be reduced to univocal, still in actions, the non-univocal agent must precede the univocal agent.
Thus then bothpredications are true respecting motion: it is the same: it is not the same, because it partakes of or enters into partnership with both Idem and Diversum.
Side-note: Reasoning of Plato about Non-Ens--No predications except identical.
It is itself the ultimate Subject of all predications and all inherencies.
Plainly, therefore, we know it only relatively to these predications and inherencies.
We know it only by two negations and one affirmation, all of which are relative to predications in futuro.
As to the first of these five heads, the Loci bearing thereupon have already been enumerated in the Third Book, on Accident: in accidental predications the question raised is always about the truth or falsehood of the predication.
Hence, nothing is more common than to hear amongst uneducated and credulous people predications from the most trivial occurrences of daily life.
How shall we interpret such illusive predications except by cultivating our literary perceptions, by reading the most significant authors until we are at home with them?
On comparing this list of real predications with the list of logical relations given above (chap.
The use of such subordinate predications is, however, limited (as opposed, e.
It will be noted that these predicationsare not objectivized, cf.
Certain words precede words, phrases, and whole predications which are thereby subordinated to the main sentence as absolute attributes, loosely joined.
Finally, in a few casespredications apparently not introduced by any subordinating word are used as absolute attributes.
For predications as attributes see the section on attribution.
Complete predications as disjunctive attributes of time are common.
The above list will hopefully give you a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "predications" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this word.
