Definition:Singular Statement

Context
Predicate logic.

Definition
A singular statement is a statement made about an object which is identified by means of a proper name.

Example
"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 $$W \left({\mathbf r}\right)$$.