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Single Idea 16932
[filed under theme 19. Language / C. Assigning Meanings / 3. Predicates
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Full Idea
'Projectible' predicates are predicates F and G whose shared instances all do count, for whatever reason, towards confirmation of 'All F are G'. ….A projectible predicate is one that is true of all and only the things of a kind.
Gist of Idea
Projectible predicates can be universalised about the kind to which they refer
Source
Willard Quine (Natural Kinds [1969], p.115-6)
Book Ref
Quine,Willard: 'Ontological Relativity and Other Essays' [Columbia 1969], p.115
A Reaction
Both Quine and Goodman are infuriatingly brief about the introduction of this concept. 'Red' is true of all ripe tomatoes, but not 'only' of them. Hardly any predicates are true only of one kind. Is that a scholastic 'proprium'?
The
25 ideas
with the same theme
[terms attributing characteristics to things]:
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12349
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Only what can be said of many things is a predicable
[Aristotle, by Wedin]
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11837
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Some predicates signify qualification of a substance, others the substance itself
[Aristotle]
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5107
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Predicates are substance, quality, place, relation, quantity and action or affection
[Aristotle]
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20786
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Predicates are incomplete 'lekta'
[Stoic school, by Diog. Laertius]
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15383
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Nothing external can truly be predicated of an object
[Abelard, by Panaccio]
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11206
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The mind constructs complete attributions, based on the unified elements of the real world
[Aquinas]
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9022
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Russell uses 'propositional function' to refer to both predicates and to attributes
[Quine on Russell]
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16932
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Projectible predicates can be universalised about the kind to which they refer
[Quine]
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19159
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Quine relates predicates to their objects, by being 'true of' them
[Quine, by Davidson]
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9281
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The idea of a predicate matches a range of things to which it can be applied
[Strawson,P]
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8533
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Predicates need ontological correlates to ensure that they apply
[Armstrong]
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4035
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There must be some explanation of why certain predicates are applicable to certain objects
[Armstrong]
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5457
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Predicates assert properties, values, denials, relations, conventions, existence and fabrications
[Ellis, by PG]
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19156
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Modern predicates have 'places', and are sentences with singular terms deleted from the places
[Davidson]
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19176
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The concept of truth can explain predication
[Davidson]
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6995
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Successful predication supervenes on nature
[Jackson]
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4572
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If predicates name things, that reduces every sentence to a mere list of names
[Cooper,DE]
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13363
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A (modern) predicate is the result of leaving a gap for the name in a sentence
[Bostock]
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17857
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We can accept Frege's idea of object without assuming that predicates have a reference
[Wright,C]
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18536
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The subject-predicate form reflects reality
[Heil]
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10401
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The F and G of logic cover a huge range of natural language combinations
[Swoyer]
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8471
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Three ways for 'Socrates is human' to be true are nominalist, platonist, or Montague's way
[Orenstein]
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21658
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Properties can be expressed in a language despite the absence of a single word for them
[Hofweber]
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21659
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'Being taller than this' is a predicate which can express many different properties
[Hofweber]
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10634
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Predicates are 'distributive' or 'non-distributive'; do individuals do what the group does?
[Linnebo]
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