Jun 10, 2016 · 10 What does Kant mean by "Existence is not a predicate"? How does that invalidate the ontological arguments? and how can he show that it's not a predicate? By …

Furthermore, I can't draw up a connection between predicate, and what it means to be predicated. I think a predicate is a proposition with variables, so for e.g instead of 'the sky is blue', you …

A predicate might be a single word like ‘John laughed’ where John is the subject and ‘laughed’ is the predicate. Or a string of words as in the sentence Clare went to school, 'Clare' is the …

May 8, 2024 · Incidentally, the above definition is the reason you need equality in the signature of FOL; you need to be able to reduce FOL statements to statements in the propositional …

Feb 12, 2023 · To predicate X of Y is to say that Y is X or that Y is an X. This terminology comes from syllogistic logic, where they tend to be loose about the distinction between a property, a …

Jun 15, 2019 · First order logic is a logic equivalent to a predicate calculus, a formal system with connectives and quantifiers, where one can only quantify over non-logical variables, but not …

Oct 17, 2016 · 4 In technical logic, a predicate is an entire statement. In your usage, with respect to grammar, the predicate is the verb and object (or other parts) which apply to the subject; the …

May 1, 2020 · 1 Though any general predicate might correspond to a Form (according to Plato's view at one stage or another), and the question of self-predication might be approached in …

Apr 26, 2015 · 4 There is of course predicate as in predicate logic; but I'm asking about the notion in Aristotle's Organon. Consider the proposition: Socrates is a man. Man is a universal, …

Aug 8, 2024 · But this definition has small explanatory value; for the notion of self-contradictoriness, in the quite broad sense needed for this definition of analyticity, stands in …