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  • noun Plural form of predicable.

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  • The predicables are a five-fold division of General Names, not grounded as usual on a difference in their meaning, that is, in the attribute which they connote, but on a difference in the kind of class which they denote.

    NPNF2-08. Basil: Letters and Select Works 1895

  • The predicables are a five-fold division of General Names, not grounded as usual on a difference in their meaning, that is, in the attribute which they connote, but on a difference in the kind of class which they denote.

    A System Of Logic, Ratiocinative And Inductive (Vol. 1 of 2) John Stuart Mill 1839

  • The predicables are a fivefold division of General Names, not grounded as usual on a difference in their meaning, that is, in the attribute which they connote, but on a difference in the kind of class which they denote.

    A System Of Logic, Ratiocinative And Inductive John Stuart Mill 1839

  • Since similar reasonings would apply to the other Porphyrian predicables as well, no universal can exist in this way.

    The Medieval Problem of Universals Klima, Gyula 2008

  • Here is Hillî dealing with why Tûsî moves from the five predicables (or “five categories”) to the ten categories:

    Arabic and Islamic Philosophy of Language and Logic Street, Tony 2008

  • (Any pair of I-predicables for a fixed theory are equivalent.)

    Relative Identity Deutsch, Harry 2007

  • Objection 5: Geach remarks that "As for our recognizing relative identity predicables: any equivalence relation ¦ can be used to specify a criterion of relative identity."

    Relative Identity Deutsch, Harry 2007

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

    Peter of Spain Spruyt, Joke 2007

  • Avempace affirms that the five predicables are not primitive concepts, but constitute correlations between two universals falling within the rules of individuals and classes.

    Ibn Bajja Montada, Josep Puig 2007

  • Part I then concludes with a discussion of the five “predicables” from Porphyry's Isagoge and of each of Aristotle's categories.

    William of Ockham Spade, Paul Vincent 2006

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