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?