`red' is a predicative adjective in `the apple is red'. From Wordnet, Princeton University.
An adjective used just after a noun is called a predicative adjective - "The princess was very beautiful.". From Wordnik.com. [The Hindu - Front Page] Reference
But even there I think I would be puzzled by any use that wasn't both negated and predicative, which is not the case with the hardier "untoward". From Wordnik.com. [waste] Reference
When an adjective follows a form of be or a few other verbs which I don’t want to talk about, it is known as a predicative adjective. From Wordnik.com. [The Volokh Conspiracy » It Takes Too, Baby] Reference
"predicative" propositional functions of the lowest type, would have or lack "third truth" depending on whether its allowable substitution instances have second (or lower) truth. From Wordnik.com. [Russell's Logical Atomism] Reference
I used an attributive, not a predicative adjective. From Wordnik.com. [The Volokh Conspiracy » “We Have to Pass the Bill So That You Can Find Out What Is In It”] Reference
The property “to be Corsican” is said to be predicative. From Wordnik.com. [Type Theory] Reference
I don't think it's accurate to say behavioral theories have no predicative power. From Wordnik.com. [Fama vs. Thaler, Arnold Kling | EconLog | Library of Economics and Liberty] Reference
Normally we wouldn't find two adjectives in predicative position without modification. From Wordnik.com. [Archive 2009-07-01] Reference
It's one thing to end a sentence with a subject predicative/complement in the objective case. From Wordnik.com. [On all and all] Reference
There are analyst overconfidence and underreaction studies that seem to show predicative power. From Wordnik.com. [Fama vs. Thaler, Arnold Kling | EconLog | Library of Economics and Liberty] Reference
To begin with, English contains a plethora of suffixes that we can append to predicative expressions. From Wordnik.com. [Properties] Reference
Although Hume and Kant accept predicative uses, it is not clear that they would accept existential ones. From Wordnik.com. [Existence] Reference
I take it that "I" is subject predicative (or subject "complement") here ("All you have" being the subject). From Wordnik.com. [On all and all] Reference
We can see it as a predicative adjective, parallel in use to 'Open your mouth wide' or 'Shut the door tight'. From Wordnik.com. [On ending inconclusive(ly)] Reference
Simply put this thesis denies that predicative moral sentences express propositions or have truth conditions. From Wordnik.com. [Boys in White Suits] Reference
It is true, these are all good news, but they are not equal or even in their indicatory or predicative value. From Wordnik.com. [David Ehrenstein Claims "We're Even" In Gay Marriage Fight] Reference
Thus relatively strong theories are considered predicative in today's foundations of constructive mathematics. From Wordnik.com. [Set Theory: Constructive and Intuitionistic ZF] Reference
That is, is talk of bodies fundamentally to be construed for Spinoza as predicative or adjectival on substance?. From Wordnik.com. [Spinoza's Physical Theory] Reference
And some predicative adjectives, like those beginning with too, get really weird when you make them attributive. From Wordnik.com. [The Volokh Conspiracy » It Takes Too, Baby] Reference
Not only was the one sense being used, it was being employed with the same force in each case, namely, predicative. From Wordnik.com. [Existence] Reference
˜Fast™ and ˜big™ are what Geach has called attributive adjectives; ˜brown™ is called a predicative adjective. From Wordnik.com. [Existence] Reference
The existential and predicative readings typically are committed to objects as what knowledge and belief are set over. From Wordnik.com. [Plato's Middle Period Metaphysics and Epistemology] Reference
The predicative reading, on the other hand, lends itself to a defense of the Two Worlds account of Plato's metaphysics. From Wordnik.com. [Plato's Middle Period Metaphysics and Epistemology] Reference
I conclude with some comments on the predicative formulation of the object-thesis which have a bearing on this question. From Wordnik.com. [Jamestown] Reference
The next relevant fact is that many adjectives take up more than a single word, as in the following predicative examples. From Wordnik.com. [The Volokh Conspiracy » It Takes Too, Baby] Reference
It even emerged that most of mainstream nineteenth-century mathematical analysis could be vindicated on a predicative basis. From Wordnik.com. [Philosophy of Mathematics] Reference
We can form singular terms from predicative expressions in many ways (different ways are appropriate for different predicates). From Wordnik.com. [Properties] Reference
Although being used with existential force in the former but predicative forcein the latter, ˜is™ has the same sense in both. From Wordnik.com. [Existence] Reference
It need not be the case, as the predicative reading in terms of objects would have it, that a given temple is and is not - beautiful. From Wordnik.com. [Plato's Middle Period Metaphysics and Epistemology] Reference
This whole argument however is circular since the property “to be a number” is not predicative and should be treated with suspicion. From Wordnik.com. [Type Theory] Reference
So the ablative absolute is a Latin based adverbial modifier of a predicative conditional sometimes described in English as a gerundive. From Wordnik.com. [languagehat.com: POLYGLATT.] Reference
It can be shown that the predicative version of Frege's system is consistent (see Heck, 1996 and for further refinements Ferreira, 2002). From Wordnik.com. [Type Theory] Reference
Pre-predicative experience is, paradigmatically, sense experience as it is given to us independently of any active judging or predication. From Wordnik.com. [Consciousness and Intentionality] Reference
The imperfection of even the more true of these judgments, though, is nothing to do with the its being relational rather than predicative. From Wordnik.com. [Francis Herbert Bradley] Reference
But this, it may be thought, is hard to square with the fact that they have such very different explanatory, predicative, and rationalizing potential. From Wordnik.com. [Propositional Attitude Reports] Reference
Take an object or predicative complement: Tom likes painting walls. From Wordnik.com. [Recently Uploaded Slideshows] Reference
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