Full Idea
As well as properties, predicates can assert evaluation, denial, relations, conventions, existence or fabrication.
Gist of Idea
Predicates assert properties, values, denials, relations, conventions, existence and fabrications
Source
report of Brian Ellis (The Philosophy of Nature: new essentialism [2002], Ch.3) by PG - Db (ideas)
Book Reference
Ellis,Brian: 'The Philosophy of Nature: new essentialism' [Acumen 2002], p.43
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.