Sentence examples for only predicable from inspiring English sources

For example, the term 'man', in English is a universal term, because it is truly predicable of all men in one and the same sense, as opposed to the singular term 'Socrates', which in the same sense, i.e., when not used equivocally, is only predicable of one man.

"It's entirely predicable because of the behaviour of the Welsh Rugby Union in all matters, and I experienced that first hand," he said.

These passages suggest that the self-predicational nature of Forms implies that the only property predicable of a Form is itself: i.e., Justice is just and the only thing Justice is is just.

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.

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

(Duns Scotus, Quaestiones super libros Metaphysicorum, IV, q. 1) Porphyry's list of predicables not only occasioned the question of its relation to transcendental predicates, but also supplied a model to express the relation of 'being' to the other transcendentals as the relation between a subject and its properties (propria).

Metaphysically, these "universal" concepts are singular entities like all others; they are "universal" only in the sense of being "predicable of many".

What he says he means by this is that the predicate be truly predicable at some time, in the present tense, of the supposita of the subject.

The funds can be volatile, but not in a predicable way.

In both cases we have a particular that is also a property, a subject of predication that is also a predicable entity, where the predicable entity is predicated of itself.

For, on the standard account, as we saw above, 'A white thing was black' is true only if 'is black' has been truly predicable of the supposita of the subject, namely, of what is or was white.