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Signs are rhematic signs (also called “sumisigns” and “rhemes”), dicisigns (also called “quasi-propositions”), or arguments (also called “suadisigns”), accordingly as they are predicational/relational in character, propositional in character, or argumentative in character.

Nobody Knows Nothing 2009

˜Hesperus is Phosphorus™ differ, because only the latter has predicational/unsaturated constituents corresponding to

Logical Form Pietroski, Paul 2009

Generalizing from what is said here about Beauty Itself, it seems that Forms inherit from the Socratic Properties their self-predicational status: Beauty is beautiful; Justice is just; Equality is equal.

Plato's Middle Period Metaphysics and Epistemology Silverman, Allan 2008

These passages suggest that the self-predicational nature of Forms implies that the only property predicable of a Form is itself: i.e.,

Plato's Middle Period Metaphysics and Epistemology Silverman, Allan 2008

The job of a cause or principle of being, he notes, is to explain why one thing belongs to another (1041a11); that is, it is to explain some predicational fact.

Aristotle's Metaphysics Cohen, S. Marc 2008

Quine also held that second-order quantification illicitly treated predicates as names for sets, thereby spoiling Frege's conception of propositions as unified by virtue of having unsaturated predicational constituents that are satisfied by things denoted by names.)

Logical Form Pietroski, Paul 2009

On her view, Parmenides was not a strict monist but, rather, a proponent of what she terms “predicational monism,” which she defines as “the claim that each thing that is can be only one thing; it can hold only the one predicate that indicates what it is, and must hold it in a particularly strong way.

Parmenides Palmer, John 2008

On predicational monism, a numerical plurality of such one-beings (as we might call them) is possible” (Curd

Parmenides Palmer, John 2008