Sentence examples for preindication from inspiring English sources

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.

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.

Of course, neither of them was aware that they converged on the following three points: (1) judgement is distinct from predication, (2) existence is not a first-level predicate, (3) logical analysis must penetrate the linguistic expressions which often disguise the form of our judgements.

As Geach saw it, we need to think of predication as constant across embedded and unembedded occurrences of predicative moral sentences so as not to commit a fallacy of equivocation in making arguments.

On his view, because of this formal distinction, not everything predicable of individuals can be directly predicated of universals and vice versa, although an indirect predication is always possible.

All predication involves repeatable general terms.

Psychological explanation, predication, and rationalization.

This is his theory of relevant predication.

Can Plato also handle negative predication?

By Self-Predication, L2 is large.

(Allen (1997, 163) accepts that the reasoning relies on the claim that the large is large an instance of Self-Predication, but denies that the argument, when generalized to forms other than the large, relies on Self-Predication).