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8. Modes of Existence / B. Properties / 12. Denial of Properties

9017	Predicates are not names; predicates are the other parties to predication [Quine]
	Full Idea: Predicates are not names; predicates are the other parties to predication.
	From: Willard Quine (Philosophy of Logic [1970], Ch.2)
	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?