Sentence examples for have supposition from inspiring English sources

First of all, he recognizes that in addition to categorical terms, which have supposition, there are also often 'syncategorematic' terms in a sentence, which influence the supposition of the terms around them, but may have no supposition of their own.

In fact, (1) signification consisted in the relation of a linguistic sign to what it signifies apart from any propositional context; (2) a word capable of standing for something else or for itself in a proposition had first to have signification; (3) a term only had supposition in a propositional context; and (4) the kind of supposition a term had depended on its propositional context.

Certainly singular terms could have material supposition, but, at least for non-nominalists, the distinction between simple or formal supposition and personal supposition was more problematic.

Thus one and the same term could have material supposition when it referred to the actual word, as in "'man' has three letters," or simple supposition when it referred to the form signified, as in "Man is a species of animal," or personal supposition when it referred to individuals, as in "Some man is running".

However, even this may only have been supposition on Bede's part.

Bede explains that the lunar month of Eosturmonath "was once called after a goddess... named Eostre, in whose honour feasts were celebrated". However, even this may only have been supposition on Bede's part.

(3) In particular affirmative propositions, such as 'some man is animal', both the subject and predicate have determinate supposition.

The subject of (I)- and (O -, and the predicate of (I -propositions, have determI -propositionson; thaveubject andeterminate of (E)-, the supposition(A)-, and the predicate of (O)-proposubject hand confused and distributive supredicate; and the predicate of (A)-propositions has mE -,y confused supposithen.

This obviously implies that an affirmative proposition is true if and only if its extremes have personal supposition for the same thing or things.

Without such an indication, the term was considered to have personal supposition by default.[22] The use of inverted commas is a much later innovation.

According to him, the sentence 'the father and the son are simultaneous by nature' is true if the two subjects have simple supposition and so refer to their significata, i.e., the two aggregates compounded by substance and accidental form.