Sentence examples for not predicable from inspiring English sources
On this account, substance is best understood by analogy with a grammatical subject it takes a predicate, and is not predicable of anything further.
If the other three kinds of absence are not predicable of it, then consciousness should be beginningless, without end, and ubiquitous.
However, although such bundles of tropes inhere in substance, they are not predicable of substance.
Hence, the integral whole is not predicable of any one of its parts taken singularly.
Rather, they are themselves essential unities, and indeed not predicable at all.
But does this mean that, unlike Aristotelian proper substances, which are not predicable of anything else, Spinoza's finite modes are predicable of substance?
Leibniz agreed with Aristotle's characterization of substance as the grammatical subject of predication and not itself predicable of anything else.
On his view, because of this formal distinction, not everything predicable of individuals can be directly predicated of universals and vice versa, although an indirect predication is always possible.
In the third and fourth senses, terms can also be said to signify certain things they are not truly predicable of, no matter the tense or modality of the copula.
The financial estimates may or may not be predicable or accurate, but the ultimate return is inevitable when there is suddenly no more water available, we need the salt water turned fresh, and the cost is priceless.
For Aristotle, the individual is not, strictly speaking, predicable, although there are places in which he speaks of the individual as predicable.
