Indeed, all the shocked-shocked response to the Newsweek story – that it was not so much an unmasking of the Bitcoin founder as and estimation or educated guess as to who he might be – is predicated on Newsweek being Newsweek.
The view that Dubai World assets might be obtainable by creditors is predicated on the belief that, according to bond documents, Dubai World is named as a guarantor if Nakheel defaults on its bonds and thus becomes vulnerable to a claim against its assets.
Moreover, the first sentence contains what might be called an individuating predicate — it is a predicate of the form, a such and such, rather than of the form, such and such.
So, one might think, there are predicates that attribute to primary substances properties the having of which suffices for that substance to be an individual of some kind.
Even more radically, it might be maintained that moral predicates do not even purport to refer to properties and that this explains why the relevant questions seem open.
In the next section we will take up the idea that descriptions might be thought of as predicates, and in the final section we will see if there is a remaining role for determiners to play.
For it might be held that moral predicates do purport to refer to non-natural properties but fail to refer precisely because those properties would have to be so queer.
As discussed earlier, these multi-argument predicates might be further decomposed, with ptrans e, x, y) rewritten as ptrans e) ∧ agent e, x) ∧ theme e, y), and so on.
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Alternatively one might say that properties are predicates or that properties are concepts.
