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Third, the notion of "value" (Wert) here clearly means the truth-value of a whole proposition, not its propositional content specifically, which explains why a modal predicate "contributes nothing to the content of a judgment," i.e., it contributes nothing to the specific content of a judgment over and above its truth-value.

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Hence, if one were to compare two beings, both equally great in all respects except that one exists and one does not, the one that does not exist, by virtue of its non-existence, is lacking a predicate that contributes to the greatness of the other.

By contrast yet again and finally, the three kinds of modality of a judgment are supposed by Kant to capture the three basic ways in which the copula of a simple 1-place subject-predicate proposition "contributes nothing to the content of the judgment … but rather concerns only the value of the copula in relation to thinking in general" (A74/B99 100).

Since moral predicates can contribute descriptive content of just the sort that cognitivists postulate, inconsistencies between the descriptive contents expressed will occur whenever cognitivism would predict inconsistency.

It is not enough to treat "existence" as a second-level predicate to avoid the misinterpretation that it contributes to the content of the judgement (see Prior 1976, p.115).

"The whole approach of extended schools is predicated on the parents contributing to the project.

This work contributes to the study of attitude predicates by singling out counterfactual attitudes from the so-called "representational attitudes" (Bolinger 1968) and motivating a finer-grained typology of attitudes based on the distributional differences of epistemic modals.

Beside topoi which do perfectly comply with the description given in the Topics, there is an important group of topoi in the Rhetoric that contain instructions for arguments not of a certain form, but with a certain predicate (for example, that something is good, or honorable, or just, or contributes to happiness, etc).

Whatever it is that is this most real being, it must include all predicates that contribute to its greatness or reality; and given that actual existence is (allegedly) one such predicate, whatever it is that is the most real being is therefore a being who by definition must exist.

The use of RSFA is predicated on its sensitivity to vascular rather than neural factors; however, the extent to which each of these factors contributes to RSFA remains to be characterized.

Various lower predicate calculi have been constructed.

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