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Single Idea 21659
[filed under theme 19. Language / C. Assigning Meanings / 3. Predicates
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Full Idea
It is said that not every property can be expressed because there are more properties than there are predicates. ...But the same predicate can be used to express many different properties: 'being taller than this' depends on what 'this' refers to.
Gist of Idea
'Being taller than this' is a predicate which can express many different properties
Source
Thomas Hofweber (Ontology and the Ambitions of Metaphysics [2016], 09.2)
Book Ref
Hofweber,Thomas: 'Ontology and the Ambitions of Metaphysics' [OUP 2018], p.237
A Reaction
A good example, but being a comparative and relying on a demonstrative indexical makes it a favourable example. 'Being made of iron' doesn't have much scope for expressing many properties.
The
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[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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