11 adjectives to describe predicates

Is some would call the grammatical predicate, and "Such is," or is such, the logical; but the latter consists, as the majority teach, of "the copula" is, and "the attribute," or "predicate," such.

Some writers have classed adjectives with verbs; because, with a neuter verb for the copula, they often form logical predicates: as, "Vices are contagious."

And when we reflect how frequently and familiarly predicates applicable to man are applied to the Supreme Being, when they cannot possibly be understood about Him in the same sensewe see no ground for treating the proceeding as disingenuous, which Mr Mill is disposed to do.

No concept could make intelligible the possibility of change, that is, of the connection of contradictory predicates in one and the same thing, but the intuition of succession easily succeeds in accomplishing it.

The more harmonious anything isthe fewer its internal discrepancies or contradictionsthe higher is its degree of reality; and the greater its comprehensivenessthe fewer predicates left outside itthe higher also is its degree of reality.

But the Professor at length reasons himself into the notion, that this indeterminate "predicate," as he erroneously calls it, "is properly in the objective case, and in parsing, may correctly be called the objective indefinite;" of which case, he says, "The following are also examples: 'He had the honour of being a director for life.'

In the third place it is self-contradictory, for after theology has removed the Deity as far away from man as possible, by means of the negative metaphysical predicates, it finds itself necessitated to bring the two together again through the moral attributeswhich are neither compatible with one another nor with the meta-physicaland crowns the absurdity by the assurance that we can please God by believing that which is incomprehensible.

In the third place it is self-contradictory, for after theology has removed the Deity as far away from man as possible, by means of the negative metaphysical predicates, it finds itself necessitated to bring the two together again through the moral attributeswhich are neither compatible with one another nor with the meta-physicaland crowns the absurdity by the assurance that we can please God by believing that which is incomprehensible.

But so singularly absurd is his doctrine about "abridged predicates," that in general the abridging shows an increase of syllables, and often a conversion of good English into bad.

The whole delusion of the Anti-Trinitarians arises out of this, that they apply the property of imaginable matterin which A. is, that is, can only be imagined, by exclusion of B. as the universal predicate of all substantial being.

As an inevitable outcome of the transformation of religious feelings into representations, and one which is harmless because of the unmistakableness of their symbolic character, the anthropomorphic predicates, through which we think the Deity as personal, themselves establish the superiority of theism over pantheism.

11 adjectives to describe  predicates