Predicaments and Predicable

Predicaments

•Predicaments – refer to the set of fundamental ideas in terms of which all other ideas can be expressed

•A. Substance – that which has its existence not in another but in and for itself. It has its own meaning and value.

plant dog manchair table tree

Predicaments

•B. Accident – refers to everything added to a substance as a further determination. There are 9 accidents

•Quantity – 50 kgs 25 ft. Long 100 pesos 200 sq. M.

•Quality – intelligent hot form of a statue

red figure of woman

Predicaments

•Relation – father ruler teacher husband sister

•Action – running swimmingwalking dancing

•Passion – being killed are burnedwas shot being accepted

Predicaments

•When – at 8 p.m. Today tomorrownow last time next week

•Where – here in the officeat home Manila

•Posture – lying sittingstanding stooping

Predicaments

•Habit – bemoustached clothed in black sui

in red gown covered with lace

Predicables• Predicables – refer to the kinds of relations which

may be obtained between a term and the subject of which it is predicated. (there are 5 predicables)

• 1. Genus – universal idea which expresses a part of the essence of a thing, that part which is common with other species in the same class.

Man is an animal.An octagon is a polygon.Guitar is a stringed musical instrument.

Predicables

•2. Specific difference – universal idea which expresses a part of the essence of a thing, that part which differentiates it from that of other species.

Man is rational.An octagon is 8 sided.Guitar has six strings.

Predicables

•3. Species – expresses the complete essence of a thing. (constituted by adding the specific difference to the genus.

Man is a rational animal.Guitar is a six stringed musical

instrument.An octagon is an 8-sided polygon.

Predicables

•4. Property – a universal idea that expresses an attribute that belongs to the thing by natural necessity. It is not a part of the essence of the thing, yet it belongs to that thing and to it alone.

Man is capable of learning grammar, of thinking, of morality.

Water freezes at 0 degrees C; boils at 100 degrees C.

Predicables

•5. Logical Accident – a universal idea that is not part of the essence of a thing but something that belongs to the thing, not by natural necessity, but by contingency.

Andrew is tall, intelligent and kinky-haired.The guitar is electric.

Identify the predicaments and predicables•An octopus is a mollusk.•Man’s normal temperature is 37 deg.•The building is very tall.•Microscope is an instrument using

lens.•The elephant is heavy.• Immanuel is a cat.•He went to the corner by crawling.•The man went home.•It was raining last night.