For another example, a singular term (e.g., '1') may be defined using a predicate (e.g., 'is identical to 1').
It seems pretty clear, however, that, based on the rules of quote-names for words, this predicate still retains a singular term for a type, the word 'color' just as clearly as "a George W. Bush appearance" still contains a reference to Bush.
using 'the ether' as a singular term for the light-bearing medium posited by nineteenth century physicists.
Cattlebeast/bovine/animal: a singular term for a bovine whose gender cannot be determined, particularly when viewed at a distance.
since the syntagm 'an individual man'homoomo singularis') would be a singular term standing precisely for one individual, e.g., 'Socrates'Sortestes'Sortes
Some theorists, for instance, hold that 'you' is not a singular term that refers to an individual in a context.
'In virtue of', for example, requires a sentence as its first argument and a sentence nominalization or a singular term derived from a sentence as its second.
So, a singular term is defined via a singular term; a general term via a general term; a sentence via a sentence; and so on.
Buridan's treatment of proper names depends on his insistence that a singular term must be subordinated to a singular concept, and that the formation of a singular concept depends on the actual presence of the singular thing.
If this intuition is taken seriously, then a mass noun isn't a singular term.
