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A Note on Predication

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  05 May 2010

George Englebretsen
Affiliation:
Bishop's University

Abstract

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Copyright © Canadian Philosophical Association 1980

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References

NOTES

1 Dialogue, 16 (1977), pp. 653663.CrossRefGoogle Scholar

2 Sommers, F., “Do We Need Identity?Journal of Philosophy, 66 (1969), pp. 499504CrossRefGoogle Scholar; and Lockwood, M., “On Predicating Proper Names,” Philosophical Review, 84 (1975), pp. 471498.CrossRefGoogle Scholar

3 This was Aristotle's theory, at least. I have discussed it in detail in On Propositional Form,” Notre Dame Journal of Formal Logic, 21 (1980), pp. 101110.CrossRefGoogle Scholar

4 Leibniz: Logical Papers, ed. Parkinson, G.H.R. (Oxford, 1966), p. 66.Google Scholar

5 See: The Calculus of Terms,” Mind, 79 (1970)Google Scholar; On Concepts of Truth in Natural Languages,” Review of Metaphysics, 23 (1969)Google Scholar; and The Logical and the Extra-Logical,” Boston Studies in the Philosophy of Science, 14 (1973)Google Scholar.

6 Parkinson, pp. 88–89.

7 See especially “The Calculus of Terms.”

8 Parkinson, p. 115.

9 See especially “On a Fregean Dogma,” Problems in the Philosophy of Mathematics, ed. Lakatos, I. (Amsterdam, 1967)Google Scholar, and “Do We Need Identity?”

10 Most clearly in “The Calculus of Terms.”

11 I have examined this process in Three Logicians: Aristotle, Leibniz, and Sommers and the Syllogistic, Van Gorcum, forthcoming.