The Oxford Companion to Philosophy Part 93. The book is alphabetized by the whole headings of entries, as distinct from the first word of a heading. Hence, for example, abandonment comes before a priori and a posteriori. It is wise to look elsewhere if something seems to be missing. At the end of the book there is also a useful appendix on Logical Symbols as well as the appendices A Chronological Table of Philosophy and Maps of Philosophy. | 900 subject and predicate deriving from particular predications as This is a key . Since we do not then have a predicative use of a key in There is a key nothing which can be attached to the former phrase can be described as a predicate of a predicate. It can also be queried whether Something is a key features a second-order predicate but now because is a key may be said to function in just the same way as in This is a key despite the absence of any namelike term. More generally there is good reason for broadening the category of subject to include a greater range of noun phrases than is customary even those that are negative as nothing or no one . So we might include here Every dog has its day Gentlemen prefer blondes and Nothing surprises him any more . In Every dog has its day the phrase every dog is a genuine unit relevantly on a par with Fido though of course not a name. It is relevantly on a par in so far as we can say has its day is true of every dog. Similarly prefer blondes is true ofgentlemen and surprises him any more is true of nothing. The contrast here continues to be with Here is an F where we cannot say is an F is true ofhere. . P. T. Geach Subject and Predicate Mind 1950 . B. Rundle Grammar in Philosophy Oxford 1979 . P. F. Strawson Subject and Predicate in Logic and Grammar London 1974 . subjective truth. This self-consciously paradoxical description was employed by the Danish philosopher Soren Kierkegaard to describe the force ofpassionate conviction and commitment particularly with reference to religion. The intended contrast obviously is objective truth scientific truth matters which can be verified or established by proof. But subjective truth although conscientiously unscientific is not therefore meaningless or irrational as some later positivists would argue and as Kierkegaard sometimes suggests himself . Subjective truth is a commitment to believe in the face of objective uncertainty in matters which cannot be demonstrated or verified
