Sentence examples for which it signifies from inspiring English sources

The sign must be consonant with that which it signifies.

A common description is to say it occurs when a term supposits for the universal or form which it signifies.

Albert goes a step further and offers a compelling definition of supposition as "the mental act [actus animae] of placing a term for that which it signifies" (§230), which leads him to conclude, among other things, that "terms written in closed books do not supposit for something because they are not taken for something by anyone" (§253).

It is also a common progression for gastrointestinal malignancies including colorectal, gastric, and pancreatic cancers, for which it signifies a grim prognosis [ 1, 2].

According to him, a general name supposits for and names (appellare) a set of individual things only through the common nature or universal which it directly signifies and which is present in that set of individuals (EP, ch. de substantia, fol. 26ra).

The Taiwanese company also announced a 5.7in Android handset which it called its "first phablet" - signifying a cross between a phone and a tablet.

In particular, he restores the notion of simple supposition — i.e., the reference of a term to the concept to which it is subordinated, when it signifies an extra-mental thing — which had been criticized and rejected by Buridan.

What happens is that when we work on the Categories, we follow Aristotle's lead and depart from conventional usage in such a way that the term 'man' supposits not for individual men but for the universal concept according to which it was imposed to signify, in which case the proposition is true because "species and genera are universals according to predication" (S 4.3.2: 254.3.2

As Sten Ebbesen describes it: "The basic idea of modism is this: each constituent of reality (each res) has a number of ways or modes of being (modi essendi) which determine the number of ways in which it can be correctly conceptualized; the ways in which it can be conceptualized (modi intelligendi) in turn determine in which way it can be signified" (Ebbesen 1998, 274).

It has a small pawprint which signifies it is part of Google's internal 'dogfooding' tests, and something which suggests a Google employee may have lost this specific device.

The group, which delights in bad puns, is named for the one-to-six scale devised by Alfred Kinsey to measure sexual orientation, in which a six (get it?) signifies exclusively homosexual behavior.