Sentence examples for predicate this from inspiring English sources

Defenders of the 'modes of predication' distinction have no problem here: they hold that we can externally predicate being a fictional character of both Anna Karenina and Pirandello's The Father, while we can also internally predicate this property of The Father.

Though this seems to involve the procedure, branded as inadmissible by many philosophers, of treating existence as a predicate, this can nonetheless be easily done on the formal level.

Davidson's critics assume that if an event is picked out by both sorts of predicate, this must be because it includes a mental property and a physical property.

While he still contends that it remains ultimately grounded upon the Ontological Argument's assumption that existence is a predicate, this objection does not cut to the argument's core.

If we apply Sellars' analysis systematically, this becomes ""The word 'red'" consists of a three-lettered predicate" which is just false; if instead we reckon that "the word 'red'" is already a distributive singular term and apply his analysis to it, getting "The word red is a three-lettered predicate", this then translates incorrectly as "Le mot rouge est un prédicat trois-en lettres".

In cases in which specific Coherence Relations create a next mention bias for a non-subject argument, such as a Goal in a realized TOP predicate, this favors mention of the non-subject as the anchor/starting point of the continuation of the dialog.

I feel that I have no identity, because everything I predicated this identity on – my creative life, my studies, my friendships, my love-relationships – has disappeared.

But then it looks like the proposition expressed by 'Violet is a child' — which predicates this A-series property of Violet — should have different truth-values with respect to different times.

As America jubilantly celebrates the election of Barack Obama and the freedoms that predicated this historic moment, we should take pause and realize that nothing has changed for war-ravaged Central Africa.

The results predicate that this new type of ionophore might be useful to fabricate electrochemical sensor of sodium ion.

Axiom 1 says that an atomic sentence of the language of Peano arithmetic is true if and only if it is true according to the arithmetical truth predicate for this language (Tr0 was defined in Section 3.1).