the existence of abstract entities (e.g. properties, relations, sets). The way he linked predicates to the things of which they can be predicated is not seen as a full account of the role of the predicates but this allowed his notion to avoid a regress.

Gilles Deleuze maintained that predication is not attribution since substance is not a subject of attribute. In his description of the schema of attribution, Deleuze maintained that the predicate is above all relation and event, not attribute. He