Definitions
from The Century Dictionary.
- noun In logic, one of several characters (less properly also objects) signified by a common term.
from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.
- noun (Logic) One of several things signified by a common term.
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- noun logic One of several things
signified by acommon term .
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Examples
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In the first case, the spoken term is the same but there are two distinct significates or intellectual conceptions; in the second case, both the spoken term and the significate are the same.
Medieval Theories of Analogy Ashworth, E. Jennifer 2009
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We have become a society of morons to think this is some kind of significate event!
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Albert's semantics becomes innovative when he admits that propositions have their own proper significate, which is not identical to that of their terms (see especially his Questions on the Posterior Analytics I, qq.
Albert of Saxony Biard, Joél 2009
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While I have no objection to trying to get that trophy or the world record in fishing or hunting for that matter, it can create a significate misnomer about the sport and what we are all out there doing.
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While I have no objection to trying to get that trophy or the world record in fishing or hunting for that matter, it can create a significate misnomer about the sport and what we are all out there doing.
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If the word ˜false™ in a is taken in the third sense, therefore, a's primary significate does exist, since it is a fact that a is false in the third sense.
Insolubles Spade, Paul Vincent 2009
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For some thinkers, the primary significate of a common noun was the common nature, and the secondary significate was the thing having that nature.
Medieval Theories of Analogy Ashworth, E. Jennifer 2009
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What was needed was a way of allowing the concept to enjoy some kind of unity, while allowing the word to have a significate that was not a simple common nature.
Medieval Theories of Analogy Ashworth, E. Jennifer 2009
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It is perhaps plausible to interpret an existing primary significate as analogous to a “fact” in the modern philosophical sense.
Insolubles Spade, Paul Vincent 2009
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A proposition is false in this second sense if and only if its primary significate fails to exist.
Insolubles Spade, Paul Vincent 2009
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