ABSTRACT
“I am persuaded to cash out ‘Mars is red’ as saying ‘Mars exemplifies redness’, and consequently to hold that the ‘is’ in ‘Mars is red’ is the ‘is’ of exemplification.” (The word ‘redness’ in this statement purports to denote a “monadic universal” or attribute.) If Lowe’s analysis of predication is correct, ‘Mars is red’ entails the existence of a universal. My purpose in this chapter is to examine some logical difficulties that confront any analysis of predication that has that consequence. In the end, I find the analysis unacceptable and propose an alternative analysis of predication, an analysis according to which ‘Mars is red’ entails the existence of nothing but Mars.
