Lexicon of Arguments

 

II 47
Frege: e.g. a sentence about a unicorn is a sentence without truth value; predicates cannot be assigned or denied. (>Nonexistence - thought: is the same whether the expression has a reference ("meaning") or not.
Berka I 87
Predicate/Frege: one could live with a single predicate, "is a fact". Then there is no question of subject/predicate.⁽¹⁾

1. G. Frege, Begriffsschrift, eine der arithmetischen nachgebildete Formelsprache des reinen Denkens, Halle 1879, Neudruck in: Ders. Begriffsschrift und andere Aufsätze, hrsg. v. J. Agnelli, Hildesheim 1964
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Brandom I 943
Frege: (great discovery): there must be complex predicates in this sense: so that the inferential role of sentences, e.g. "anyone who admires someone who admires themselves", can be recognized. (x)(y)[Rxy > Rxx]. (Can also occur in a language without quantification)- Strawson: this is the second distinguishing feature of singular terms and predicates: terms can be quantified.
Singulär terms, >Quantification.
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EMD II 226ff
Predicate/Frege: Function: takes objects as arguments and provides truth values as a value.
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Frege II 71
Predicate/Frege: e.g. "falling under the concept of human" - which means the same as "a human". ((s) Later authors: "is a human being". "Is" belongs to the predicate.
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Tugendhat I 192
Predicate/Frege/Tugendhat: with Frege the predicate also stands for something, but something non-objective: the concept ("to stand for") - (VsObject Theory).
Tugendhat I 193
Predicate/Frege: the predicate has no reference - not because it were contradictory, but because of indeterminacy. >Reference, >Indeterminacy.