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Usage examples of predicate.

And into the same error fall those who suppose two supposita or hypostases in Christ, since it is impossible to understand how, of two things distinct in suppositum or hypostasis, one can be properly predicated of the other: unless merely by a figurative expression, inasmuch as they are united in something, as if we were to say that Peter is John because they are somehow mutually joined together.

But, on the other hand, from the falsity of a proposition predicating a given term, we cannot infer the truth of the predication of any particular contrary term.

When different forms cannot come together in one suppositum, the proposition is necessarily in remote matter, the subject signifying one form and the predicate another.

There cannot be a greater and less in the non-existent: as we predicate Substance of everything in sense, but predicate it also of the Intellectual order and more strictly there--since we hold that the greater and more sovereign substantiality belongs to the Real Beings and that Being is more marked in Substance, even sensible Substance, than in the other Kinds--so, finding unity to exhibit degree of more and less, differing in sense-things as well as in the Intellectual, we must similarly admit that Unity exists under all forms though still by reference, only, to that primal Unity.

Immediate Inference by changing the quality of the given proposition and substituting for its predicate the contradictory term.

Hence they have certain names and predicates in common, and it frequently remains uncertain, especially as regards the theophanies in the Old Testament, whether it was a high angel that spoke, or the Son through the angel.

Many of these chains were predicated on the assumption that consumers responded to the convenience of the carryout, quick-service foods, rather than just to hamburgers.

Gotti had admitted sanctioning, the Castellano predicate would be greatly strengthened.

In the proposition, all the functions of language are led back to the three elements that alone are indispensable to the formation of a proposition: the subject, the predicate, and the link between them.

But when we have the songs, the five or six hundred of them, the operas and other vocal works, in which music is so lovely in and of itself, yet at the same time so descriptive, so loyal to the changing moods of the text, we necessarily interpret the instrumental music in the same light, especially when we know that there are no distinct periods in the short life of this composer concerning which different principles can be predicated.

But sins of thought, word, and deed are the subjective and not integral parts of sin, because sin is predicated of each one of them.

The rule book call would be for her to radio for backup, since the man in the leather coat, Luther Slyke, was a predicate felon, known to be dangerous and more than likely heavily armed.

While we only remember them for their misdeeds, the bizarre behaviors upon which their crimes are predicated constitute only a small fraction of their total behavior.

Its best answer is arrived at by reversing the predicate and the subject, and you at once form a contradictory maxim equally true, our vices are most frequently but virtues disguised.

Somewhat like adjectives, genitives can be used both attributively and as predicates.