Sentence examples for the predicable from inspiring English sources

In both cases we have a particular that is also a property, a subject of predication that is also a predicable entity, where the predicable entity is predicated of itself.

This makes his logical system considerably different from the Aristotelian/Neo-Platonic systems of the Middle Ages, since for the latter the predicative relation of any sentence of the subject/copula/predicate form had to be understood as modally determined by the particular nature of the predicable corresponding to the predicate (i.e., its species, genus, difference, proprium, accident).

Creating schools that are designed from the start to deal with the predicable challenges of poverty — it is the most important thing we can do next.

The group portrait that emerges is a chilly, deglamorized vision of smart, successful movie folk of a certain age (their 30's and 40's), beset by the predicable anxieties of career, family and aging.

You can stay on the predicable research path if you choose to, but even that might not work, especially if the field moves on without you, propelled along by someone else's successful gamble.

The inherent value of natural wealth of the area is enormous, and it is that potential that attracts the predicable extraction-based, capital-intense investment that offers mesmerizing estimates of return to enterprise as far away as China and Brazil.

A fifth topic of discussion introduced in the Middle Ages through Boethius' Commentaries on Porphyry's Isagoge involves the "predicables" (praedicabilia), which are ways in which predicates relate to subjects.

The second tract, De predicabilibus (On the predicables) covers matters dealt with in Boethius's accounts of Porphyry's Isagoge.

The logical 'surpassing' expressed by the nomina transcendentia is the order of the predicables or universals described by Porphyry.

It gives an account of the concept predicabile and the five predicables genus, species, differentia, proprium, accidens i.e., the common features of and differences between the predicables, as well as of the terms 'predicatio' and 'denominativum'denominativum

However, to be a true subjective part, not only must the name of the whole be predicable of the part, the definition of the whole also must be predicable of the part.