Sentence examples for I predicated from inspiring English sources

According to Auriol, these types of representational theories of concepts would make explaining essential predication impossible, since, assuming any of them, when I predicated, e.g., animal of human being, I would make a false predication, inasmuch as the concept human being would not be the concept animal.

I feel that I have no identity, because everything I predicated this identity on – my creative life, my studies, my friendships, my love-relationships – has disappeared.

Clinton is getting hammered today, which I predicated, especially on the drivers license question moment, which came at the end of a withering assault from The Boys.

When I think that there are dogs, what am I predicating of what?

Soames takes it to be clear that when I predicate whiteness of snow, the event of my doing this represents snow as being white and so is true iff snow is white.

For example, to evaluate a 'MorphologyTypeIII' predicate for a token ' GnRH,' we first convert each character to A or a depending on whether it is uppercase or lowercase, then match the converted string ' AaAA' to a specified pattern.

Is legitimacy predicated on being slightly less wealthy?

Relative to another, richer, theory the same predicate, interpreted in the same way, may not be an I-predicate.

Following Geach, call a two-place predicate with these properties in a theory an "I-predicate" in that theory.

But it remains that it is not guaranteed that a two-place predicate that is an I-predicate in the theory to which it belongs expresses identity.

Any two-place predicate expressing an equivalence relation could be an I-predicate relative to some sufficiently impoverished theory, and Quine's suggestion will be applicable to any such predicate if it is applicable at all.