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Single Idea 9281
[filed under theme 19. Language / C. Assigning Meanings / 3. Predicates
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Full Idea
The idea of a predicate is correlative with a range of distinguishable individuals of which the predicate can be significantly, though not necessarily truly, affirmed.
Gist of Idea
The idea of a predicate matches a range of things to which it can be applied
Source
Peter F. Strawson (Individuals:Essay in Descript Metaphysics [1959], 3.4 n1)
Book Ref
Strawson,Peter F.: 'Individuals: Essay in Descriptive Metaphysics' [Methuen University 1974], p.99
A Reaction
Said to be one of Strawson's most important ideas. The idea is that you understand a predicate if you understand its range, not just a one-off application. So you must understand the implied universal, whatever that is.
The
25 ideas
with the same theme
[terms attributing characteristics to things]:
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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