predicableadj.n.

Brit.

/ˈprɛdᵻkəbl/, U.S.

/ˈprɛdəkəb(ə)l/

Forms: 1500s– predicable, 1600s–1700s praedicable.

Origin: Of multiple origins. Partly a borrowing from French. Partly a borrowing from Latin. Etymons: French prédicable; Latin praedicābilis.

Etymology: < Middle French prédicable, adjective and noun (1534 in philosophical sense; French prédicable ) and its etymon classical Latin praedicābilis (adjective) deserving renown, praiseworthy, in post-classical Latin also that may be affirmed, predicable (frequently from a1217 in British sources) < praedicāre predicate v. + -bilis -ble suffix. With use as noun in sense B. 1a compare post-classical Latin praedicabile (plural praedicabilia ) predicable in logic, category (from 12th cent. in British sources; from 13th cent. in continental sources, especially with reference to Aristotle), use as noun of neuter of classical Latin praedicābilis ; in turn translating ancient Greek κατηγορικά (plural). In sense B. 1b after German Prädikabilien, plural (1787 in the passage translated in quot. 1838 at sense B. 1b).

A. adj.

That may be predicated (in various senses); capable of being affirmed or asserted.In quot. 1547: (perhaps) suitable for preaching, preachable.

ΘΚΠ

the mind > language > statement > assertion or affirmation > [adjective] > asseverated, asserted, affirmed, or positively stated > able to be

predicable1547

averrable1562

intendable1628

assertable1837

1547 W. Salesbury Dict. Eng. & Welshe sig. Oi^v Pregethol, predicable.

1598 J. Florio Worlde of Wordes Predicabile, predicable, that may be told and spoken of publikely.

1667 E. Waterhouse Short Narr. Fire London 51 Made that predicable of London which Florus writes of Samnium.

1683 R. Browne in R. Browne tr. R. Bacon Cure Old Age & Preservation Youth xii. 108 Some would have this to be Quintessence of Mans Blood: But what the Author speaks of, cannot be predicable of any Quintessence.

1722 W. Wollaston Relig. of Nature v. 73 It will always be predicable of him, that he was the doer of it.

1776 G. Campbell Philos. of Rhetoric I. i. vi. 170 For, to express myself in the language of the art, that may be predicated of the species, which is not predicable of the genus; but that can never be predicated of the genus which is not predicable of the species.

1849 W. Thomson Outl. Laws of Thought (ed. 2) §37. 147 Predicable-Classes, or classes of conceptions which can stand as predicates.

1866 T. Fowler Elem. Deduct. Logic (1887) viii. 59 As a test of a logical division..the term divided must be predicable of each dividing member.

1906 P. Lowell Mars & its Canals viii. 95 Even on Mars nothing in the way of weather is absolutely predicable but impredicability.

1952 Mind 61 88 A homological predicate, genuinely predicable of itself.

1995 C. A. Wellman Real Rights i. 19 The radical difference between our color and shape vocabularies hardly proves that they are not both predicable of the same physical objects.

B. n.

1. Philosophy.

a. Chiefly in plural. In Aristotelian logic: each of the five (originally four) classes of predicate, to one or other of which every predicated thing may be referred.Of these classes Aristotle ( Topica1. 4. 5) recognized four: genus (γένος), definition (ὅρος), property (ἴδιον), accident (συμβεβηκός). Under genus he made the subdivision of difference (διαϕορά). The list was subsequently modified by Porphyry and by the early Schoolmen, by the omission of definition, and addition of species (εἴδος), giving the ‘Five Predicables’, genus, species, difference, property, accident.

ΘΚΠ

the mind > mental capacity > philosophy > ancient Greek philosophy > post-Socratic philosophy > [noun] > Aristotelianism > elements of

material cause1393

matterc1395

matter subjecta1398

predicamenta1425

quality?1537

first substance1551

predicable1551

property1551

proprium1551

transcendent1581

final cause1587

category1588

habit1588

ante-predicament?1596

postpredicament1599

entelechy1603

transumption1628

secondary1656

objective cause1668

transcendental1668

general substance1697

third man1801

thought-form1834

posterioristic universal1902

ousia1917

1551 T. Wilson Rule of Reason sig. Biiii ^v They be called Predicables because some one thing is spoken of an other.

1569 J. Sanford tr. H. C. Agrippa Of Vanitie Artes & Sci. vii. f.21 ^v Moreouer they teache what they be that are before spoken of these and their partes, whiche be fiue in number: that is, the Generall woorde, the Speciall, the Difference, the Propertie, and the Accidente, whiche for this cause be called Predicables.

1606 G. Chapman Monsieur D'Oliue ii. i Gaue a scholler Forty or fiftie crownes a yeare to teach me And prate to me about the predicables When indeede my thoughts flew a higher pitch.

1656 T. Blount Glossographia s.v In Logick there are five Predicables, otherwise called Porphyries five terms.

1701 tr. F. Burgersdijck Introd. Art Logick 31 The Predicables are five in Number, viz. Genus, Species, Difference, Property and Accident.

1766 O. Goldsmith Vicar of Wakefield I. vii. 60 The essence of spirituality may be referred to the second predicable.

1844 U.S. Mag. & Democratic Rev. Nov. 443/2 The several kinds of propositions, the number of Predicables, which, after a stringent review of the Ten Categories of Aristotle, Mr. Mill reduces to the five which follow: Existence; Order in place; Order in time; Causation; Resemblance.

1906 H. W. B. Joseph Introd. Logic iv. 96 It would be well to abandon the Porphyrian list of predicables in favour of the Aristotelian.

1925 Mind 34 201 It is interesting as showing to what extent the Epicureans found themselves compelled to fall back on something like Aristotle's predicables in order to make knowledge possible.

1966 Philos. Q. 16 262 This will entail narrowing the notion so that some broadly or grammatically predicative sentences will not longer count as predicative. This is done by Aristotle: but it is not the doctrine of categories, but the doctrine of predicables.

2002 R. Knowles Shakespeare's Arguments with Hist. i. 15 Cicero in effect had already taken on board the predicables, i.e. that which can be predicated of any thing (genus, species, difference, property, accident).

b. In plural. In the philosophy of Kant: certain a priori concepts derived from the categories. Cf. category n. 1b.

ΘΚΠ

the mind > mental capacity > philosophy > idealism > [noun] > Kantianism > elements of

conception1701

schematism1794

categorical imperative1796

intuition1796

matter1796

receptivity1796

schema1796

dialectic1797

multifarious1798

reciprocity1799

form1803

synthesis1817

Anschauung1820

manifold?1822

category1829

modality1836

multiplex1836

predicable1838

multiple1839

multiplicity1839

presentmenta1842

elanguescence1855

1838 F. Haywood tr. I. Kant Critick Pure Reason i. ii. §x. 82 Let it be permitted to me to call these pure, but deduced understanding-conceptions, the Predicables [Ger. Prädikabilien] of the pure understanding (as opposed to Predicaments).

1889 J. H. Bernard & J. P. Mahaffy Kant's Crit. Philos. for Eng. Readers I. v. 96 Kant observes that the Categories, as generic concepts of the pure understanding, have their pure deduced concepts under them, which he proposes to call predicables of the pure understanding, e.g. subordinate to the category of cause we should have force, action, passion; [etc.].

1902 J. M. Baldwin Dict. Philos. & Psychol. II. 325/2 Kant undertook to set up his own ‘predicables of the pure understanding’, which were to be derivative conceptions under the categories.

1999 S. Gardner Routledge Philos. Guidebk. to Kant & Critique Pure Reason v. 133 Kant means to prove..that these categories and no others must be the pure concepts of the understanding, i.e. that they are necessary for any subject with a discursive intellect and that any other pure concepts that such a subject has will be formed from them (‘pure derivative concepts’ or ‘predicables of the pure understanding’, in Kant's language).

2. gen. A thing which may be predicated.

ΘΚΠ

the world > existence and causation > existence > intrinsicality or inherence > [noun] > a property, quality, or attribute

i-cundeOE

kindOE

thingOE

quality1340

virtue1340

assizea1375

propertyc1390

principlea1398

conditionc1460

faculty1490

predicatea1513

epitheton1547

passion1570

propriety1584

affection1588

attribute1603

qualification1616

appropriate1618

intimacy1641

bedighting1674

belonger1674

cleaver1674

interiority1701

internal property1751

predicable1785

coloration1799

internality1839

1785 T. Reid Ess. Intellect. Powers v. i. 433 A predicable therefore signifies the same thing as an attribute.

1837 H. Hallam Introd. Lit. Europe I. iv. 437 This method appears to be only an artificial disposition..of subjects and predicables, according to certain distinctions.

1871 O. S. Munsell Psychology 132 After all, essence, or identity, and acts, as predicables, come under the relations of attributes, generically considered.

1906 H. W. B. Joseph Introd. Logic iv. 54 A predicable is merely that which can be predicated: viz. that which is universal, not an individual; all kinds, qualities, states, relations, etc., are predicable, and they are universal, because they may be exemplified in and belong to more than one individual subject.

1975 Times Lit. Suppl. 28 Feb. 215/3 The orthodox Fregean and Russellian view that the sortals ‘man’, ‘woman’, ‘cat’ are predicables and not names.

2000 J. Margolis in L. P. Nucci et al. Culture, Thought & Developm. i. i. 13 Piaget does not come to grips directly with the problem of general predicables, which the seriation question broaches and entails.

Derivatives

† predicableness n. Obsolete rare Apparently only attested in dictionaries or glossaries.

ΚΠ

1727 N. Bailey Universal Etymol. Eng. Dict. II. sig. Cccc2^v/1 Predicableness, capableness of being predicated, told or spoken of.

ˈpredicably adv. rare.

ΚΠ

1728 E. Chambers Cycl. Predicably, Predicabiliter, is used in the Schools in opposition to predicamentally. Thus, Matter is said to be united to Form predicably, or per accidens; to exclude the Notion of a predicamental Accident.

1993 T. McDermott tr. St. Thomas Aquinas Sel. Philos. Writings (1998) i. 27 Ibn Sīnā says beginnings can be common in two senses: predicably common [L. per praedicationem], in the way what I call form is common to all forms, being predicated of each; and causally common.

This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, March 2007; most recently modified version published online June 2022).

单词	predicable
释义	predicableadj.n. Brit. /ˈprɛdᵻkəbl/, U.S. /ˈprɛdəkəb(ə)l/ Forms: 1500s– predicable, 1600s–1700s praedicable. Origin: Of multiple origins. Partly a borrowing from French. Partly a borrowing from Latin. Etymons: French prédicable; Latin praedicābilis. Etymology: < Middle French prédicable, adjective and noun (1534 in philosophical sense; French prédicable ) and its etymon classical Latin praedicābilis (adjective) deserving renown, praiseworthy, in post-classical Latin also that may be affirmed, predicable (frequently from a1217 in British sources) < praedicāre predicate v. + -bilis -ble suffix. With use as noun in sense B. 1a compare post-classical Latin praedicabile (plural praedicabilia ) predicable in logic, category (from 12th cent. in British sources; from 13th cent. in continental sources, especially with reference to Aristotle), use as noun of neuter of classical Latin praedicābilis ; in turn translating ancient Greek κατηγορικά (plural). In sense B. 1b after German Prädikabilien, plural (1787 in the passage translated in quot. 1838 at sense B. 1b). A. adj. That may be predicated (in various senses); capable of being affirmed or asserted.In quot. 1547: (perhaps) suitable for preaching, preachable. ΘΚΠ the mind > language > statement > assertion or affirmation > [adjective] > asseverated, asserted, affirmed, or positively stated > able to be predicable1547 averrable1562 intendable1628 assertable1837 1547 W. Salesbury Dict. Eng. & Welshe sig. Oi^v Pregethol, predicable. 1598 J. Florio Worlde of Wordes Predicabile, predicable, that may be told and spoken of publikely. 1667 E. Waterhouse Short Narr. Fire London 51 Made that predicable of London which Florus writes of Samnium. 1683 R. Browne in R. Browne tr. R. Bacon Cure Old Age & Preservation Youth xii. 108 Some would have this to be Quintessence of Mans Blood: But what the Author speaks of, cannot be predicable of any Quintessence. 1722 W. Wollaston Relig. of Nature v. 73 It will always be predicable of him, that he was the doer of it. 1776 G. Campbell Philos. of Rhetoric I. i. vi. 170 For, to express myself in the language of the art, that may be predicated of the species, which is not predicable of the genus; but that can never be predicated of the genus which is not predicable of the species. 1849 W. Thomson Outl. Laws of Thought (ed. 2) §37. 147 Predicable-Classes, or classes of conceptions which can stand as predicates. 1866 T. Fowler Elem. Deduct. Logic (1887) viii. 59 As a test of a logical division..the term divided must be predicable of each dividing member. 1906 P. Lowell Mars & its Canals viii. 95 Even on Mars nothing in the way of weather is absolutely predicable but impredicability. 1952 Mind 61 88 A homological predicate, genuinely predicable of itself. 1995 C. A. Wellman Real Rights i. 19 The radical difference between our color and shape vocabularies hardly proves that they are not both predicable of the same physical objects. B. n. 1. Philosophy. a. Chiefly in plural. In Aristotelian logic: each of the five (originally four) classes of predicate, to one or other of which every predicated thing may be referred.Of these classes Aristotle ( Topica1. 4. 5) recognized four: genus (γένος), definition (ὅρος), property (ἴδιον), accident (συμβεβηκός). Under genus he made the subdivision of difference (διαϕορά). The list was subsequently modified by Porphyry and by the early Schoolmen, by the omission of definition, and addition of species (εἴδος), giving the ‘Five Predicables’, genus, species, difference, property, accident. ΘΚΠ the mind > mental capacity > philosophy > ancient Greek philosophy > post-Socratic philosophy > [noun] > Aristotelianism > elements of material cause1393 matterc1395 matter subjecta1398 predicamenta1425 quality?1537 first substance1551 predicable1551 property1551 proprium1551 transcendent1581 final cause1587 category1588 habit1588 ante-predicament?1596 postpredicament1599 entelechy1603 transumption1628 secondary1656 objective cause1668 transcendental1668 general substance1697 third man1801 thought-form1834 posterioristic universal1902 ousia1917 1551 T. Wilson Rule of Reason sig. Biiii ^v They be called Predicables because some one thing is spoken of an other. 1569 J. Sanford tr. H. C. Agrippa Of Vanitie Artes & Sci. vii. f.21 ^v Moreouer they teache what they be that are before spoken of these and their partes, whiche be fiue in number: that is, the Generall woorde, the Speciall, the Difference, the Propertie, and the Accidente, whiche for this cause be called Predicables. 1606 G. Chapman Monsieur D'Oliue ii. i Gaue a scholler Forty or fiftie crownes a yeare to teach me And prate to me about the predicables When indeede my thoughts flew a higher pitch. 1656 T. Blount Glossographia s.v In Logick there are five Predicables, otherwise called Porphyries five terms. 1701 tr. F. Burgersdijck Introd. Art Logick 31 The Predicables are five in Number, viz. Genus, Species, Difference, Property and Accident. 1766 O. Goldsmith Vicar of Wakefield I. vii. 60 The essence of spirituality may be referred to the second predicable. 1844 U.S. Mag. & Democratic Rev. Nov. 443/2 The several kinds of propositions, the number of Predicables, which, after a stringent review of the Ten Categories of Aristotle, Mr. Mill reduces to the five which follow: Existence; Order in place; Order in time; Causation; Resemblance. 1906 H. W. B. Joseph Introd. Logic iv. 96 It would be well to abandon the Porphyrian list of predicables in favour of the Aristotelian. 1925 Mind 34 201 It is interesting as showing to what extent the Epicureans found themselves compelled to fall back on something like Aristotle's predicables in order to make knowledge possible. 1966 Philos. Q. 16 262 This will entail narrowing the notion so that some broadly or grammatically predicative sentences will not longer count as predicative. This is done by Aristotle: but it is not the doctrine of categories, but the doctrine of predicables. 2002 R. Knowles Shakespeare's Arguments with Hist. i. 15 Cicero in effect had already taken on board the predicables, i.e. that which can be predicated of any thing (genus, species, difference, property, accident). b. In plural. In the philosophy of Kant: certain a priori concepts derived from the categories. Cf. category n. 1b. ΘΚΠ the mind > mental capacity > philosophy > idealism > [noun] > Kantianism > elements of conception1701 schematism1794 categorical imperative1796 intuition1796 matter1796 receptivity1796 schema1796 dialectic1797 multifarious1798 reciprocity1799 form1803 synthesis1817 Anschauung1820 manifold?1822 category1829 modality1836 multiplex1836 predicable1838 multiple1839 multiplicity1839 presentmenta1842 elanguescence1855 1838 F. Haywood tr. I. Kant Critick Pure Reason i. ii. §x. 82 Let it be permitted to me to call these pure, but deduced understanding-conceptions, the Predicables [Ger. Prädikabilien] of the pure understanding (as opposed to Predicaments). 1889 J. H. Bernard & J. P. Mahaffy Kant's Crit. Philos. for Eng. Readers I. v. 96 Kant observes that the Categories, as generic concepts of the pure understanding, have their pure deduced concepts under them, which he proposes to call predicables of the pure understanding, e.g. subordinate to the category of cause we should have force, action, passion; [etc.]. 1902 J. M. Baldwin Dict. Philos. & Psychol. II. 325/2 Kant undertook to set up his own ‘predicables of the pure understanding’, which were to be derivative conceptions under the categories. 1999 S. Gardner Routledge Philos. Guidebk. to Kant & Critique Pure Reason v. 133 Kant means to prove..that these categories and no others must be the pure concepts of the understanding, i.e. that they are necessary for any subject with a discursive intellect and that any other pure concepts that such a subject has will be formed from them (‘pure derivative concepts’ or ‘predicables of the pure understanding’, in Kant's language). 2. gen. A thing which may be predicated. ΘΚΠ the world > existence and causation > existence > intrinsicality or inherence > [noun] > a property, quality, or attribute i-cundeOE kindOE thingOE quality1340 virtue1340 assizea1375 propertyc1390 principlea1398 conditionc1460 faculty1490 predicatea1513 epitheton1547 passion1570 propriety1584 affection1588 attribute1603 qualification1616 appropriate1618 intimacy1641 bedighting1674 belonger1674 cleaver1674 interiority1701 internal property1751 predicable1785 coloration1799 internality1839 1785 T. Reid Ess. Intellect. Powers v. i. 433 A predicable therefore signifies the same thing as an attribute. 1837 H. Hallam Introd. Lit. Europe I. iv. 437 This method appears to be only an artificial disposition..of subjects and predicables, according to certain distinctions. 1871 O. S. Munsell Psychology 132 After all, essence, or identity, and acts, as predicables, come under the relations of attributes, generically considered. 1906 H. W. B. Joseph Introd. Logic iv. 54 A predicable is merely that which can be predicated: viz. that which is universal, not an individual; all kinds, qualities, states, relations, etc., are predicable, and they are universal, because they may be exemplified in and belong to more than one individual subject. 1975 Times Lit. Suppl. 28 Feb. 215/3 The orthodox Fregean and Russellian view that the sortals ‘man’, ‘woman’, ‘cat’ are predicables and not names. 2000 J. Margolis in L. P. Nucci et al. Culture, Thought & Developm. i. i. 13 Piaget does not come to grips directly with the problem of general predicables, which the seriation question broaches and entails. Derivatives † predicableness n. Obsolete rare Apparently only attested in dictionaries or glossaries. ΚΠ 1727 N. Bailey Universal Etymol. Eng. Dict. II. sig. Cccc2^v/1 Predicableness, capableness of being predicated, told or spoken of. ˈpredicably adv. rare. ΚΠ 1728 E. Chambers Cycl. Predicably, Predicabiliter, is used in the Schools in opposition to predicamentally. Thus, Matter is said to be united to Form predicably, or per accidens; to exclude the Notion of a predicamental Accident. 1993 T. McDermott tr. St. Thomas Aquinas Sel. Philos. Writings (1998) i. 27 Ibn Sīnā says beginnings can be common in two senses: predicably common [L. per praedicationem], in the way what I call form is common to all forms, being predicated of each; and causally common. This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, March 2007; most recently modified version published online June 2022). < adj.n.1547
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