Single Idea 9017

[catalogued under 8. Modes of Existence / B. Properties / 12. Denial of Properties]

Full Idea

Predicates are not names; predicates are the other parties to predication.

Gist of Idea

Predicates are not names; predicates are the other parties to predication

Source

Willard Quine (Philosophy of Logic [1970], Ch.2)

Book Reference

Quine,Willard: 'Philosophy of Logic' [Prentice-Hall 1970], p.27


A Reaction

Does a wife only exist as party to a marriage? There's something missing here. We are taking predication to be primitive, but we then seem to single out one part of the process - the object - while ignoring the remainder. What are Quinean objects?