Either (option 1; Cocchiarella 1986) the terms standing for properties are predicates or (option 2; cf. Bealer 1982) such terms are subject terms that can be linked to other subject terms by a special predicate that is meant to express a predication relation (let us use 'pred') pretty much as in standard set theory a special predicate, '∈', is used to express the membership relation.
It was the assumption that existence is a predicate that has, in the view of most subsequent philosophers, proved fatal to the argument.
It consisted of only two words, with a subject of "Boston" and a predicate that cannot be printed in this newspaper.
Mr. Olson, the legal predicate that seems to have slipped your muddled mind is that recounts are only triggered if there's a problem with the machinery, not in the case of voter error.
Interrogated in detail on this by Tony Snow of Fox News, Senator Jay Rockefeller, ranking Democrat on the Intelligence Committee, who said in 2002 that "I do believe that Iraq poses an imminent threat," replied about the Bush address in 2003: "If the word imminent threat wasn't used, that was the predicate, that was the feeling that was given to the American people and to Congress".
Not even Godwin would have predicate that.
Let 'Real(x)' be a predicate that marks this distinction.
Suppose that 'K' is a predicate that applies to plural terms.
Is there any predicate that can play the role of 'A' in an atomless mereology?
A pure perfection is any predicate that does not imply limitation.
Or consider an inductive predicate that is too complex for us to reason with.
