significateとは 意味・読み方・使い方

発音

• IPA: /sɪɡˈnɪfɪkət/

名詞

significate (plural significates)

1. (logic) One of several things signified by a common term.
   • 1826, Richard Whately, Elements of Logic:

     “Britain is an island;” “all tyrants are miserable; ” “no miser is rich; ” are universal propositions, and their subjects are therefore said to be distributed. being understood to stand, each, for the whole of its Significates: but, “some islands are fertile;” “all tyrants are not assassinated;" are Particular, and their subjects, consequently, not distributed, being taken to stand for a part only of their Significates

関連する語

• significand
• signified

参照

“significate”, in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, Springfield, Mass.: G. & C. Merriam, 1913, →OCLC.