Sentence examples for that the predicate from inspiring English sources

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.

Denominative predication obtains in the case that the predicate is true of the subject as the result of the subject's possession of some further, accidental, feature.

This formula does not represent in any way the fact (if it is a fact) that the predicate tagmeme and object tagmeme together form a unit that is one of the two immediate constituents of the clause.

When nobody is treated as it should be as a quantifier the sentence I passed nobody on the road can be understood as meaning that the predicate...was passed by me on the road is unsatisfied.

Also, most scientists hold that the predicate must apply to evidence not used in deriving the law: though the law is founded upon experience, it must predict or help one to understand matters not included among those experiences.

To meet these two conditions, Kant maintained, knowledge must rest on judgments that are a priori, for it is only as they are separate from the contingencies of experience that they could be necessary and yet also synthetic i.e., so that the predicate term contains something more than is analytically contained in the subject.

(Here -ness is a predicate modifier that transforms the predicate polite, which applies to ordinary (usually human) individuals, into a predicate over quantities of the abstract stuff, politeness).

That is, the predicates that religious believers apply to God are predicates that properly apply to the human species-essence of which God is an imaginary representation.

"The problem the administration has is that the predicates it laid down for the war have not played out," said Warren B. Rudman, the former Republican senator from New Hampshire, who has extensive experience in assessing intelligence about terrorism.

Standard higher order logics beyon the second order obviate this limitation by allowing for predicates in subject position, provided that the predicates that are predicated of them belong to a higher type.

Alternatively, perhaps the best explanation of the apparent "openness" of the relevant questions to competent users is that the predicates do not refer to properties at all.