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Single Idea 10789
[filed under theme 8. Modes of Existence / E. Nominalism / 3. Predicate Nominalism
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Full Idea
Nominalists have the major task of explaining how predicates work. They usually construct it as a relation between individuals, or deny the referential function of predicates.
Gist of Idea
Nominalists say predication is relations between individuals, or deny that it refers
Source
Ruth Barcan Marcus (Nominalism and Substitutional Quantifiers [1978], p.163)
Book Ref
'Philosophy of Logic: an anthology', ed/tr. Jacquette,Dale [Blackwell 2002], p.163
The
13 ideas
with the same theme
[unversals are really just linguistic predicates]:
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15384
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Only words can be 'predicated of many'; the universality is just in its mode of signifying
[Abelard, by Panaccio]
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6440
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Universals can't just be words, because words themselves are universals
[Russell]
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7952
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If we apply the same word to different things, it is only because we are willing to do so
[Goodman, by Macdonald,C]
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4443
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Quine has argued that predicates do not have any ontological commitment
[Quine, by Armstrong]
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10789
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Nominalists say predication is relations between individuals, or deny that it refers
[Marcus (Barcan)]
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8530
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Change of temperature in objects is quite independent of the predicates 'hot' and 'cold'
[Armstrong]
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8536
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We want to know what constituents of objects are grounds for the application of predicates
[Armstrong]
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4031
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It doesn't follow that because there is a predicate there must therefore exist a property
[Armstrong]
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4431
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'Predicate Nominalism' says that a 'universal' property is just a predicate applied to lots of things
[Armstrong]
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8565
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If properties were just the meanings of predicates, they couldn't give predicates their meaning
[Mellor]
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8967
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Not all predicates can be properties - 'is non-self-exemplifying', for example
[Lowe]
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4205
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'Is non-self-exemplifying' is a predicate which cannot denote a property (as it would be a contradiction)
[Lowe]
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4457
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There can be predicates with no property, and there are properties with no predicate
[Moreland]
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