Dancing has not only a significative but also a magical function.
The latter has been explained by interpreters as the natural capacity of a significative word to stand for something.
Only significative complex expressions are true or false; simple expressions are neither true nor false (NSLPery I.2).
(The final volume of The Philosophy of Symbolic Forms, The Phenomenology of Knowledge [1929b], articulates this embedding most explicitly, where the significative function of symbolic meaning is depicted as dialectically evolving — in just the sense of Hegel's Phenomenology of Spirit — from the expressive and representative functions).
The context, or more precisely, the added significative term, can be of three kinds: the added significative term can be a predicate of a proposition in which the term at issue occurs, the added significative term can be an adjective, or the context can be of a social nature (De Rijk 1971. See also de Rijk 1985, pp. 183 203).
In his Syncategoreumata, Peter analyses the significative function of the word 'is'is
Another debate concerned the nature of mental language, specifically whether it is conventional or natural (Gelber 1984; Panaccio 1996) Ockham had argued that thinking occurs in a universally significative language of concepts acquired causally via experience, and that all conventional languages are subordinated to this mental language, which is shared by everyone.
The second and most influential approach tied the significative power of an utterance to its making known a concept.
The sciences of speech divide into those that are significative of what is known (grammar) and those that are inquisitive about what is not known (logic and rhetoric) (DOS 468).
Significatio is the natural property of any significative term to represent things, owing to its original imposition, whereas a term's supposition only enters the scene when it is used.
It may be taken in a significative role, though it need not be.
