In his 2000 book Logical Properties Colin McGinn argues that predicates denote properties rather than sets or individuals. I support the thesis, but show that it is vulnerable to a type-incongruity objection, if properties are (modelled as) functions, unless a device for extensionalizing properties is added. Alternatively, properties may be construed as primitive intensional entities, as in Geo...

It was proposed by Jones (1985) that the apparent influence of a word's imageability upon the probability of the word being read correctly by a deep dyslexic person could be understood in terms of an underlying semantic variable, ease of predication (also termed predicability). In a recent critique, de Mornay Davies and Funnell (2000) claim to have identified a number of problems with the ease ...

In this paper authors present Predicated Spiral Graph and Predicated Short Bridge Algorithm, that allocate registers to software pipelined loops with predication under the rotating register architectures. When using predication to execute the conditional branches, two separate variables in the pipelined kernel may share one real register, even if these overlap. Authors extend Spiral Graph to mu...

We discuss nominalizations in Portuguese formed by the suffix -ura. We have done a corpus-based description of the behavior of these nominals and proposed a type ontology to categorize them. In order to offer a rich description, we also tested all words formed by -ura in co-predication contexts to check if their types could be co-predicated. Although our main goal was to produce a corpus-based ...

Instruction predication is an attractive method for improving the throughput of a pipelined processor by eliminating the adverse side-effects of branch operations. Although it may alone help to prevent simple power analysis (SPA) type attacks by masking branch execution, predication systems can also be augmented to allow a building block for defence against more powerful cryptographic attacks. ...

This paper comprises two parts. The first part is an introduction to Auriol’s moderate conceptualism, as it presented in his Commentary on Book II of the Sentences, distinction 9, question 2, article 1. second edition text. In introduction, I focus use noetic tool connotation. My thesis, particular, that connotation a necessary prerequisite conceptualism. To this purpose, will be devoted brief...

OBJECTIVE: To report a rare case of a child with essential primary Cutis verticis gyrata. REPORT: Nine-year-old boy with extensive hypertrophy of scalp skin, with a cerebriform appearance. No underlying neurologic and ophthalmologic disorders were found, and no other cases were described in his family. COMMENTS: The diagnosis of primary Cutis verticis gyrata was established by thickening of the...

This paper reconciles conflicting evidence on the nature of adjectival passives. Some evidence suggests that externalization of an internal argument in adjectival passives is a lexical operation not involving syntactic movement, while other evidence suggests that adjectival passive participles project an internal argument in the syntax. It is proposed that a subject may be base generated in a p...

Document retrieval has been an important research problem over many years in the information retrieval community. State-of-the-art techniques utilize various methods in matching documents to a given document including keywords, phrases, and annotations. In this paper, we propose a new approach for document retrieval that utilizes predications (subject-predicate-object triples) extracted from th...