Sentence examples for is predicable of from inspiring English sources

When one thing is predicated of another, all that which is predicable of the predicate will be predicable also of the subject.

Thus 'man' is predicable of the individual man, and is never present in a subject.

Thus while knowledge is present in the human mind, it is predicable of grammar.

With regard, on the other hand, to those things which are present in a subject, it is generally the case that neither their name nor their definition is predicable of that in which they are present.

Given that God is omniscience, he is predicable of himself.

Given that a redness trope is a redness, it is predicable of itself.

Thus, 'man' is predicated of the individual man; but 'animal' is predicated of 'man'; it will, therefore, be predicable of the individual man also: for the individual man is both 'man' and 'animal'animal

It is plain from what has been said that both the name and the definition of the predicate must be predicable of the subject.

For it is absurd if of each subject its own negation is to be predicable, while the negation of something else which cannot be predicated of it is not to be predicable of it; for instance, if it is true to say of a man that he is not a man, evidently it is also true to say that he is either a trireme or not a trireme.

Of things themselves some are predicable of a subject, and are never present in a subject.

Thus, both the name and the definition of the species are predicable of the individual.