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    Predication can be understood as a special link that connects a property to a thing, giving rise to a proposition in which the thing functions as logical subject and the property is attributed to it.

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    • 1.When a property is appropriately connected to a logical subject (argument), the result is a proposition in which the subject and property play different roles.
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    • 2.If the proposition is true, the logical subject exemplifies the property — i.e., the subject is an instance of the property.
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    • 1.Frege's concept-object distinction shows predication is not a symmetric 'link' but an asymmetric saturation of an unsaturated function by an argument.
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    • 2.If predication were merely a special connecting relation, it would itself require a further relation to connect it to its relata, generating Bradley's infinite regress.
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    • 3.The regress dissolves only if predicative unity is explained by the intrinsic incompleteness of concepts, not by positing an additional relational link.
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    • 1.Wilfrid Sellars argued that predication cannot be analyzed as a relation between a thing and a property because properties, as abstract entities, lack the causal-nomological role required for genuine predication.
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    • 2.On a nominalist reading advanced by Quine, apparent property-attribution in 'a is F' is fully captured by applying a predicate expression to a name, requiring no abstract property-entity as a third term in any linking relation.
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    Logical subject(as used in logic and philosophy)
    The main thing or person that a statement is actually about—changing this shifts what problem you're trying to solve.
    predication(Soames treats predication as a primitive notion that underlies but does not reduce to belief.)
    A primitive mental act whereby an agent represents an object as having a property — for example, representing o as red via perception, thought, or nonlinguistic perceptual belief.
    property(Locke's demonstration of the moral proposition 'Where there is no property, there is no injustice.')
    A right to something.
    proposition(Used in the context of a semantic theory sensitive to differences in subject matter.)
    The content expressed by a sentence, individuated at least in part by the subject matter of the sentence and the contents of its subsentential expressions.

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    We have talked above in a way that might give the impression that predication is an activity that we perform, e.g., when we say or think that a certain apple is red. Although some philosophers might think of it in this way, predication, or attribution, may also be viewed as a special link that connects a property to a thing in a way that gives rise to a proposition, understood as a complex featuring the property and the thing (or concepts of them) as constituents with different roles: the latt
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