Predicable

As predicables (Latin praedicabilia, in a figurative sense: Statement ways, ancient Greek κατηγορόυμενα kategoroumena ) terms are mainly in the scholastic philosophy designates that serve that way to denote how to talk about a subject. In contrast, there are the categories (also predicaments ), which are predicated on the content of an object.

Porphyry identified five predicables:

The logical meaning of the doctrine of predicables is " .. attempt to analyze the structure of the statement, and in view of the relation of subject and predicate. " The

History of Philosophy

Already Aristotle distinguishes five types of predicates in statements:

"Everything is predicated of something [ pan to peri Tinos kategoroumenon ], can be either required the reversal of subject and predicate or not. Permits it, then it has the predicted either definition or proprium: there is the essence [to ti en einai ] the subject, so it's definition, if not, proprium. This was us even as proprium, which is indeed swapped with the subject [ antikathgoroymenon ], but its essence does not specify. But can it not be the reversal of subject and predicate, so it is either a part of the definition of the subject, or not. And it's a part of it, so it must be genus or difference, since the definition consists of genus and difference; but it is not part of it, so it's obviously an accident; because when we called accident, which is neither definition nor species, nor proprium, but the thing of which we speak belongs. "

It leads to the following scheme:

In the Middle Ages the discussion of predicables based on the Isagoge belonged to the standard repertoire of the "old logic " ( logica vetus ).

Immanuel Kant used the term predicables in another sense, to designate derived from the categories of general intellectual concepts such as force, action, suffering, presence, resistance. His categories themselves, he described with reference to Aristotle as predicaments (See CPR B 94, B 107).