Definition:Singular Statement

Definition
A singular statement is a statement whose subject is identified by means of a proper name.

More generally, it is a statement which contains no variables, either bound or free.

Examples
Rain is wet is a singular statement.

It expresses the fact that rain (a proper name identifying the liquid which falls from the sky under certain meteorological conditions) has the property being-wet.

In the language of symbolic logic, this could be written as follows:


 * Let $\mathbf r$ be rain.
 * Let $W$ be the property being wet.

Thus we symbolize Rain is wet as $W \left({\mathbf r}\right)$.


 * $2 + 3 = 3 + 2$ is a singular statement.

It expresses a specific relation between the proper names $3$ and $2$.

Also known as
A singular statement is also known as a singular proposition or a singular sentence.

Also see

 * Definition:Proper Name