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Predication, philosophy: predication is the attribution of a property to an object. See also attribution.
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Robert Stalnaker on Predication - Dictionary of Arguments

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Identity/one-place predicates/Stalnaker: you cannot generally treat sentences as predications. E.g. "x^(Hx u Gx)" is an instance of the form Fs, but "(Hs u Gs)" is not.
>Substitution
, >Inserting, >Valuation, >Interpretation, >Fine-grained/coarse-grained.
Therefore our identity scheme is more limited than Leibniz' law is usually formulated.
>Leibniz Principle.

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The note [Concept/Author], [Author1]Vs[Author2] or [Author]Vs[term] resp. "problem:"/"solution:", "old:"/"new:" and "thesis:" is an addition from the Dictionary of Arguments. If a German edition is specified, the page numbers refer to this edition.

Stalnaker I
R. Stalnaker
Ways a World may be Oxford New York 2003


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