Sentence examples for compound sense from inspiring English sources

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The truth of the compound sense saves God's infallibility and the falsity of the divided sense expresses God's freedom and the metaphysical contingency of the future (Peter Lombard, Sententiae I.38.2; Peter Abelard, Logica 'Ingredientibus', 429.26 430.36; Dialectica, 217.27 219.24).

Peter Abelard (1079 1142/4), in discussing the same example, applied the systematic division between modal statements de sensu or in the compound sense and modal statements de re or in the divided sense.

Following Peter Abelard, Peter Lombard formulated the same view in stating that 'Things cannot be other than as God foreknows them' is true in the compound sense and false in the divided sense.

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In the 3rd way the two senses arise because relative pronouns produce a compounded sense joined to their antecedents.

Now consider the same pattern of argument with "or" in a compounded sense: "every proposition or its contradictory is true".

(It should be noted that the divided sense answers quite well to Aristotle's treatment of modalities in the Prior Analytics, whereas the compounded sense corresponds nicely to the treatment of modalities by Theophrastus).

So "Five and three are eight" has a compounded sense, and "five is eight" does not follow, but "Socrates and Plato are at Plataea" has a divided sense, and "Socrates is at Plataea" does follow.

Here the divided sense (one of them I know to be true) is concluded illegitimately from the compounded sense (I know one-or-the-other-of-them to be true).

Here the problem is that the compounded sense requires that the sentence be made true at one time, in an instant, and one cannot traverse a distance in an instant.

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