Predication (philosophy)

[1] A comprehensive conceptualization describes it as the understanding of the relation expressed by a predicative structure primordially (i.e. both originally and primarily) through the opposition between particular and general or the one and the many.

[3] Predication emerged when ancient philosophers began exploring reality and the two entities that divide it: properties and the things that bear them.

It was argued that the relationship resembled the logical analysis of a sentence wherein the division of subject and predicate arises spontaneously.

[6] They hold that a number has an independent reality, arguing that substances such as fire and water were not the real essences of the things they are predicated.

[6] In describing Greek philosophy, Charles Kahn identified predication as one of the three concepts - along with truth and reality - that ontology connected.

[8] In Grundlagen, for instance, Gottlob Frege used this term to state that a statement of a number contains a predication about a concept.

Heyse's Deutsche Grammatik (1814), which influenced the development of the Japanese notion of predication called chinjutsu.

[9] Chinjutsu would later be explored by other Japanese logicians such as Takeo Miyake, Minoru Watanabe, and Motoki Tokieda.

[13] In Fregean semantics, predication is described as the relation where "an argument saturates an open position in the function, cf.

[15] He maintained that predicates do not name, stand for, or rely on the existence of abstract entities (e.g. properties, relations, sets).

[3] Aquinas also proposed other types of predication such as negative and affirmative, categorical and hypothetical, in necessary and contingent matter, and universal and particular, among others.