单词 | predicability |
释义 | predicabilityn. Chiefly Philosophy. The quality or condition of being predicable. ΘΚΠ the mind > language > linguistics > study of grammar > syntax or word order > syntactic unit or constituent > [noun] > predicate > capacity of being predicated predicability1706 1706 T. Wise in R. Cudworth Confutation of Reason & Philosophy of Atheism I. Introd. 30 Whenever the antient Fathers apply'd to the Godhead the Term specifical, or call'd it a Species, they meant no more in it, than to denote its Community to and Predicability of the three Divine Hypostases, after the like..that a Species is predicable of its Individuals. 1785 T. Reid Ess. Intellect. Powers (1803) II. vi. vi. 178 Universals have no real existence. When we ascribe existence to them..their existence is nothing but predicability, or the capacity of being attributed to a subject. 1861 Littell's Living Age 26 Jan. 238/2 In this sense he denies the predicability of the gunás in speaking of the Supreme. 1901 Mind 10 309 Again, since there is a predicate, the predicate is an entity, and its predicability of the Absolute is a relation between it and the Absolute. 1925 A. Huxley Those Barren Leaves i. iii. 22 Aquinas..had confided to an early Malaspina his secret doubt on the predicability of rollations. 1965 F. Sommers in M. Black Philos. in Amer. 275 I shall use a reverse arrow to stand for the predicability relation between two terms. 1992 C. Wright Truth & Objectivity i. 16 To all intents and purposes we know that ‘T’ is only predicable for such sentences, since none of the things which the deflationist will want to add to his basic explanation will involve its predicability of other kinds of sentence. This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, March 2007; most recently modified version published online March 2022). < n.1706 |
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