Universals and Other Generalities
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ion’ (Halbfass, 1992, p. 145). That is to say, the abstract noun-phrase ‘is-ness’ is an artificial device, used to mention an entity that resists introduction as either a subject or a predicate, an entity, in other words, which is not itself either a particular or a universal. Existence is not a predicate; it is – to borrow the terminology of Section 5 – a delimitor, albeit a minimal one, of being-a-subject or being-a-predicate. Subject terms that fail to refer, and predicates that fail to introduce a (possibly or actually instantiated) universal are, therefore, not genuine subject terms or predicates at all. 8 This list is not meant to be exhaustive. In particular, the entities in Frege’s ‘third realm’, the realm of senses, might well belong to this category too, as might, indeed, the regulative ideals of Kant. Universals and Other Generalities 65 9 The idea that there is a distinction, within the objects that figure in a thought-content, between vi†e5ya (i.e. subject) and vi†e5yatävacchedaka (delimitor of subjection), and between prakära (i.e. predicate) and prakäratävacchedaka (delimitor of predication), of which the first of each pair is an object of reference and the second an object of nonreferential invocation. 10 Matilal’s idea that sortal nominal stems name sortal-stuffs.
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