In his first sense, a term signifies whatever things it is truly predicable of by means of a present-tensed, assertoric copula.
But the experience is lessened, too, by predicable narrative, and the limited reactions of the non-playable denizens who populate this open world island of Manhattan.
When one thing is predicated of another, all that which is predicable of the predicate will be predicable also of the subject.
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 Upper World is composed the sky, which is highly ordered as seen by the predicable passing of the sun, moon, and stars.
The group portrait that emerges is a chilly, deglamorized vision of smart, successful movie folk of a certain age (their 30's and 40's), beset by the predicable anxieties of career, family and aging.
This makes his logical system considerably different from the Aristotelian/Neo-Platonic systems of the Middle Ages, since for the latter the predicative relation of any sentence of the subject/copula/predicate form had to be understood as modally determined by the particular nature of the predicable corresponding to the predicate (i.e., its species, genus, difference, proprium, accident).
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.
On this account, substance is best understood by analogy with a grammatical subject it takes a predicate, and is not predicable of anything further.
The film, directed by Gil Junger, has its predicable quota of off-color humor.
