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5457 | Predicates assert properties, values, denials, relations, conventions, existence and fabrications [Ellis, by PG] |
Full Idea: As well as properties, predicates can assert evaluation, denial, relations, conventions, existence or fabrication. | |
From: report of Brian Ellis (The Philosophy of Nature: new essentialism [2002], Ch.3) by PG - Db (ideas) | |
A reaction: This seems important, in order to disentangle our ontological commitments from our language, which was a confusion that ran throughout twentieth-century philosophy. A property is a real thing in the world, not a linguistic convention. |