Sentence examples for it is predicable from inspiring English sources

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

He defined the term universal as referring to " … that which, although it exists in one, is apt by nature to exist in many".[1] Because it is apt to be in many, it is predicable of them.

So, although that which is predicable of several singulars is nothing but the common nature as such, considered absolutely, still, that it is predicable pertains to the same nature only on account of being conceived by the abstractive intellect, insofar as it is a concept of the mind.

On this definitional interpretation of separation, an item is separate just in case the definition (essence) is predicable of it and not of what it is alleged to be separate from.

So, a Form is separate from particulars that partake of it, or any particular, if the essence is predicable of the Form and not predicable of the particular/s.

This is not to say that each essence is predicable of only the Form of which it is the essence.

Alternatively, the Mohists themselves may have understood it as an inference from "white horses are horses" and the implied claim that "riding white horses" is predicable of some action to the conclusion that "riding horses" is also predicable of that action.

Both are individual and neither is predicable.

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

Thus, "what is predicable of a conglomerate is not necessarily predicable of all of those or any of those individuals associated with it" (1984, 13), including the rights and responsibilities that we might ascribe to the conglomerate.

Universal is a technical notion in metaphysics: a universal is that which is predicable of many.