Cantore Arithmetic is able to say that name Ezekiel equated word wells: 48 chapters. About 16,900,000 results (0.27 seconds) according to the paradox. As per Wikipedia a paradox is a logically self-contradictory statement or a statement that runs contrary to one's expectation.[1][2] It is a statement that, despite apparently valid reasoning from true or apparently true premises, leads to a seemingly self-contradictory or a logically unacceptable conclusion.[3][4] A paradox usually involves contradictory-yet-interrelated elements that exist simultaneously and persist over time.[5][6][7] They result in "persistent contradiction between interdependent elements" leading to a lasting "unity of opposites".[8]
In logic, many paradoxes exist that are known to be invalid arguments, yet are nevertheless valuable in promoting critical thinking,[9] while other paradoxes have revealed errors in definitions that were assumed to be rigorous, and have caused axioms of mathematics and logic to be re-examined. One example is Russell's paradox, which questions whether a "list of all lists that do not contain themselves" would include itself and showed that attempts to found set theory on the identification of sets with properties or predicates were flawed.[10][11] Others, such as Curry's paradox, cannot be easily resolved by making foundational changes in a logical system.[12]
Examples outside logic include the ship of Theseus from philosophy, a paradox that questions whether a ship repaired over time by replacing each and all of its wooden parts one at a time would remain the same ship.[13] Paradoxes can also take the form of images or other media. For example, M.C. Escher featured perspective-based paradoxes in many of his drawings, with walls that are regarded as floors from other points of view, and staircases that appear to climb endlessly.[14]
Informally, the term paradox is often used to describe a counterintuitive result.
The Hanging Gardens of Babylon might produce the best physics programs: Cantore Arithmetic. The hanging Garden of Eden may be word best for this prejunction as the predicate due to the Hanging Gardens of Babylon as babel is a tower. With said paradox the equation to the arm is presented in Genesis as GENESIS 11:9 KJV "Therefore is the name of it called Babel!!
Addendum: The word cloud equated word meconium. And, now The Green Apple has word apple!
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- Isaiah 12:3chapter context similar meaning copy save
- Therefore with joy shall ye draw water out of the wells of salvation.
- 2 Peter 2:17chapter context similar meaning copy save
- These are wells without water, clouds that are carried with a tempest; to whom the mist of darkness is reserved for ever.
- Exodus 15:27chapter context similar meaning copy save
- And they came to Elim, where were twelve wells of water, and threescore and ten palm trees: and they encamped there by the waters.
- Genesis 26:15chapter context similar meaning copy save
- For all the wells which his father's servants had digged in the days of Abraham his father, the Philistines had stopped them, and filled them with earth.
- Nehemiah 9:25chapter context similar meaning copy save
- And they took strong cities, and a fat land, and possessed houses full of all goods, wells digged, vineyards, and oliveyards, and fruit trees in abundance: so they did eat, and were filled, and became fat, and delighted themselves in thy great goodness.
- 2 Chronicles 26:10chapter context similar meaning copy save
- Also he built towers in the desert, and digged many wells: for he had much cattle, both in the low country, and in the plains: husbandmen also, and vine dressers in the mountains, and in Carmel: for he loved husbandry.
- 2 Kings 3:19chapter context similar meaning copy save
- And ye shall smite every fenced city, and every choice city, and shall fell every good tree, and stop all wells of water, and mar every good piece of land with stones.
- Deuteronomy 6:11chapter context similar meaning copy save
- And houses full of all good things, which thou filledst not, and wells digged, which thou diggedst not, vineyards and olive trees, which thou plantedst not; when thou shalt have eaten and be full;
- Numbers 20:17chapter context similar meaning copy save
- Let us pass, I pray thee, through thy country: we will not pass through the fields, or through the vineyards, neither will we drink of the water of the wells: we will go by the king's high way, we will not turn to the right hand nor to the left, until we have passed thy borders.
- 2 Kings 3:25chapter context similar meaning copy save
- And they beat down the cities, and on every good piece of land cast every man his stone, and filled it; and they stopped all the wells of water, and felled all the good trees: only in Kirharaseth left they the stones thereof; howbeit the slingers went about it, and smote it.
- Genesis 26:18chapter context similar meaning copy save
- And Isaac digged again the wells of water, which they had digged in the days of Abraham his father; for the Philistines had stopped them after the death of Abraham: and he called their names after the names by which his father had called them.
Predicate (grammar)
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The term predicate is used in two ways in linguistics and its subfields. The first defines a predicate as everything in a standard declarative sentence except the subject, and the other defines it as only the main content verb or associated predicative expression of a clause. Thus, by the first definition, the predicate of the sentence Frank likes cake is likes cake, while by the second definition, it is only the content verb likes, and Frank and cake are the arguments of this predicate. The conflict between these two definitions can lead to confusion.[1]
Syntax[edit]
Traditional grammar[edit]
The notion of a predicate in traditional grammar traces back to Aristotelian logic.[2] A predicate is seen as a property that a subject has or is characterized by. A predicate is therefore an expression that can be true of something.[3] Thus, the expression "is moving" is true of anything that is moving. This classical understanding of predicates was adopted more or less directly into Latin and Greek grammars; from there, it made its way into English grammars, where it is applied directly to the analysis of sentence structure. It is also the understanding of predicates as defined in English-language dictionaries. The predicate is one of the two main parts of a sentence (the other being the subject, which the predicate modifies).[a] The predicate must contain a verb, and the verb requires or permits other elements to complete the predicate, or else precludes them from doing so. These elements are objects (direct, indirect, prepositional), predicatives, and adjuncts:
- She dances. — Verb-only predicate.
- Ben reads the book. — Verb-plus-direct-object predicate.
- Ben's mother, Felicity, gave me a present. — Verb-plus-indirect-object-plus-direct-object predicate.
- She listened to the radio. — Verb-plus-prepositional-object predicate.
- She is in the park. — Verb-plus-predicative-prepositional-phrase predicate.
- She met him in the park. — Verb-plus-direct-object-plus-adjunct predicate.
The predicate provides information about the subject, such as what the subject is, what the subject is doing, or what the subject is like. The relation between a subject and its predicate is sometimes called a nexus. A predicative nominal is a noun phrase: in the sentence George III is the king of England, the phrase the king of England is the predicative nominal. In English, the subject and predicative nominal must be connected by a linking verb, also called a copula. A predicative adjective is an adjective, such as in Ivano is attractive, attractive being the predicative adjective. The subject and predicative adjective must also be connected by a copula.
Modern theories of syntax[edit]
Some theories of syntax adopt a subject-predicate distinction. For instance, a textbook phrase structure grammar typically divides an English declarative sentence (S) into a noun phrase (NP) and verb phrase (VP).[4] The subject NP is shown in green, and the predicate VP in blue. Languages with more flexible word order (often called nonconfigurational languages) are often also treated differently in phrase structure approaches.[citation needed]
On the other hand, dependency grammar rejects the binary subject-predicate division and places the finite verb as the root of the sentence. The matrix predicate is marked in blue, and its two arguments are in green. While the predicate cannot be construed as a constituent in the formal sense, it is a catena. Barring a discontinuity, predicates and their arguments are always catenae in dependency structures.[5]
Some theories of grammar accept both a binary division of sentences into subject and predicate while also giving the head of the predicate a special status. In such contexts, the term predicator is used to refer to that head.[6]
Non-subject predicands[edit]
There are cases in which the semantic predicand has a syntactic function other than subject. This happens in raising constructions, such as the following:
| What | makes | you | think | that? | |
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Here, you is the object of the make verb phrase, the head of the main clause, but it is also the predicand of the subordinate think clause, which has no subject.[7]: 329–335
Semantic predication[edit]
The term predicate is also used to refer to properties and to words or phrases which denote them. This usage of the term comes from the concept of a predicate in logic. In logic, predicates are symbols which are interpreted as relations or functions over arguments. In semantics, the denotations of some linguistic expressions are analyzed along similar lines. Expressions which denote predicates in the semantic sense are sometimes themselves referred to as "predication".[8]
Carlson classes[edit]
The seminal work of Greg Carlson distinguishes between types of predicates.[9] Based on Carlson's work, predicates have been divided into the following subclasses, which roughly pertain to how a predicate relates to its subject.
Stage-level predicates[edit]
A stage-level predicate is true of a temporal stage of its subject. For example, if John is "hungry", then he typically will eat some food. His state of being hungry therefore lasts a certain amount of time, and not his entire lifespan. Stage-level predicates can occur in a wide range of grammatical constructions and are probably the most versatile kind of predicate.
Individual-level predicates[edit]
An individual-level predicate is true throughout the existence of an individual. For example, if John is "smart", this is a property that he has, regardless of which particular point in time we consider. Individual-level predicates are more restricted than stage-level ones. Individual-level predicates cannot occur in presentational "there" sentences (a star in front of a sentence indicates that it is odd or ill-formed):
- There are police available. — available is stage-level predicate.
- *There are firemen altruistic. — altruistic is an individual-level predicate.
Stage-level predicates allow modification by manner adverbs and other adverbial modifiers. Individual-level predicates do not, e.g.
- Tyrone spoke French loudly in the corridor. — speak French can be interpreted as a stage-level predicate.
- *Tyrone knew French silently in the corridor. — know French cannot be interpreted as a stage-level predicate.
When an individual-level predicate occurs in past tense, it gives rise to what is called a lifetime effect: The subject must be assumed to be dead or otherwise out of existence.
- John was available. — Stage-level predicate does NOT evoke the lifetime effect.
- John was altruistic. — Individual-level predicate does evoke the lifetime effect.
Kind-level predicates[edit]
A kind-level predicate is true of a kind of a thing, but cannot be applied to individual members of the kind. An example of this is the predicate are widespread. One cannot meaningfully say of a particular individual John that he is widespread; one may only say this of kinds, as in
- Cats are widespread.
Certain types of noun phrases cannot be the subject of a kind-level predicate. We have just seen that a proper name cannot be. Singular indefinite noun phrases are also banned from this environment:
- *A cat is widespread. — Compare: Nightmares are widespread.
Collective vs. distributive predicates[edit]
Predicates may also be collective or distributive. Collective predicates require their subjects to be somehow plural, while distributive ones do not. An example of a collective predicate is "formed a line". This predicate can only stand in a nexus with a plural subject:
- The students formed a line. — Collective predicate appears with plural subject.
- *The student formed a line. — Collective predicate cannot appear with singular subject.
Other examples of collective predicates include meet in the woods, surround the house, gather in the hallway and carry the piano together. Note that the last one (carry the piano together) can be made non-collective by removing the word together. Quantifiers differ with respect to whether or not they can be the subject of a collective predicate. For example, quantifiers formed with all the can, while ones formed with every or each cannot.
- All the students formed a line. — Collective predicate possible with all the.
- All the students gathered in the hallway. — Collective predicate possible with all the.
- All the students carried a piano together. — Collective predicate possible with all the.
- *Every student formed a line. — Collective predicate impossible with every.
- *Each student gathered in the hallway. — Collective predicate impossible with each.
See also[edit]
Notes[edit]
- ^ See for instance College Dictionary (1993, p. 1077) and Merriam Webster (2004, p. 566).
References[edit]
- ^ See for instance the Oxford Dictionary of English Grammar or the Oxford Concise Dictionary of Linguistics.
- ^ Matthews (1981, p. 102)
- ^ Kroeger 2005, p. 53.
- ^ Carnie (2007)
- ^ Dependency trees like the one here can be found in, for instance, Osborne, Putnam & Groß (2012).
- ^ For examples of grammars that employ the term predicator, see for instance Matthews (1981, p. 101), Huddleston (1988, p. 9), Downing & Locke (1992, p. 48), and Lockwood (2002, p. 4f)
- ^ Huddleston, Rodney D. (2022). A student's introduction to English grammar. Geoffrey K. Pullum, Brett Reynolds (2nd ed.). [Cambridge, United Kingdom]: Cambridge University Press. ISBN 978-1-009-08574-8. OCLC 1255520272.
- ^ Heim, Irene; Kratzer, Angelika (1998). Semantics in Generative Grammar. Oxford: Wiley Blackwell. Chapters 2-4.
- ^ Carlson (1977a), Carlson (1977b).
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External links[edit]
The dictionary definition of predicate (grammar) at Wiktionary
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