| In the Tractatus de universalibus, formal predication, essential predication, and habitudinal predication are described as three non-exclusive ways of predicating, each more general than the preceding. |
| The most plausible predication view, here, is that I am predicating being instantiated of the property of being a dog. |
| By predicating a First Cause, however, the theist103 removes the mystery a stage further back. |
| All such propositions must involve reference to some individual and predicating some property of that individual. |
| By predicating his struggle for freedom on his solitary pursuit of literacy, education, and independence, Douglass portrayed himself as a self-made man, which appealed strongly to middle-class white Americans. |
| And to be clear, I am predicating my advice on the understanding that your cheating days are over. |
