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.
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.
Predicable, in logic, something that may be predicated, especially, as listed in Boethius' Latin version of Porphyry's Isagoge, one of the five most general kinds of attribution: genus, species, differentia, property, and accident.
If a cell has a firing field in one environment, there is no predicable indication that the cell will have a firing field in the second environment.
Alexy has pointed out the confusions and inconsistencies in Kant's attempts to evade the classic position that laws whose injustice is sufficiently grave can and should be denied to have the legal character predicable of laws that citizens and courts, precisely as courts, are morally and juridically entitled to treat as or as if they are—not law.
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Spinoza's claim that modes are "in" their substances also suggests that modes inhere in substances akin to the way that properties inhere in things, and that modes are therefore predicable of substances as subjects of predication.
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.
One involves trans-categorial terms, such as 'being,'onene,'trueue,' and 'good,' which apply to all categories and are predicable of every term that falls within the categories.
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.
