Sentence examples for accidental terms from inspiring English sources

For that reason concrete accidental terms, although simple expressions from a merely grammatical point of view, are not names.

This fact accounts for the difference between general names in the category of substance (like 'man') and concrete accidental terms.

(4) Categorematic terms can be divided into substantial terms, such as 'man', and accidental terms, such as 'white'white

These are concrete accidental terms (such as 'white' or 'father'), whose significata are not absolutely simple but not exactly complex either.

He affirms that concrete accidental terms do not signify simple objects but aggregates composed of a substance and an accidental form.

59vb) he affirms that instead of signifying simple objects, concrete accidental terms signify aggregates of substance and along with the accidental form primarily signified by the term itself.

'Sanum', like other adjectives, was classified as a concrete accidental term.

The two metaphysical components of such aggregates (i.e., substance and accidental form) are related to the concrete accidental term as follows: although the concrete accidental term connotes the accidental form, this is not its direct significatum, so that the concrete accidental term can supposit for the substance only.

The metaphysical constituents of such aggregates (substance and accidental form) are related to the concrete accidental term in different ways: on the one hand, the form is the primary significatum, even if the concrete accidental term is not the name of the form; on the other, the concrete accidental term can only supposit for the substance.

Complex objects (or states of affairs — Burley's propositiones in re, the ultimate significatum of a written, spoken or mental proposition) and what we have called 'aggregates' (the significatum of a concrete accidental term) are not identical with macro-objects, but definite aspects of them.

"It was totally accidental, in terms of he didn't try to hit him in the head, absolutely.