The problem with satellites in orbit is they are very predictably in certain orbits at certain times, and thus vulnerable to anti-satellite weapons (ASAT)." Johnson-Freese says the military has long been interested in the ability of a spacecraft that has "the ability to evade, to maneuver, to not be in a predicable place at a predicable time".
The use of stable isotope analysis in trophic ecology is based on the premise that the δ13C and δ15N values of consumers reflect those of the assimilated diet and that the alteration of isotope compositions during the assimilation of food by consumers can be followed in a predicable manner (DeNiro and Epstein 1978 , 1981 Minagawa and Wada 1984; Post 2002).
Predicable, in logic, something that may be predicated, especially, as listed in Boethius' Latin version of Porphyry's Isagoge, one of the five most general kinds of attribution: genus, species, differentia, property, and accident.
We furthermore suggest that the integrated systems of software, hardware and physical devices should be viewed as a complex adaptive system which is ever changing in non-predicable ways.
Essence is particular in that it receives its subsistence in a given suppositum (concrete individual entity) from something-other-than-itself, while it is universal in that it is abstracted by the intellect from these singular supposita, in which it exists as one in many, in order to become predicable by many.
In India, by contrast, the applicable laws were written at a national level, the paperwork more straightforward, and the results far more predicable in practice.
Pop stars act out, but only in the most predicable, profitable ways, with sexual high jinks like Madonna kissing Britney Spears at last year's MTV Video Music Awards, or with safe political causes, like the "Rock the Vote" T-shirt worn by Amber Tamblyn, the young star of CBS's drama "Joan of Arcadia," when she helped present an award.
If there is such a thing as a "category mistake," this may seem like an especially clear case of one.[7] It would be disappointing if this objection simply assumed from the outset that (a) objects like tables and human beings are substances and (b) substances neither inhere in nor are predicable of other substances.
