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Note 164: Joseph Shatzmiller, Recherches sur la communauté juive de Manosque (Paris, 1973), 133 — 34: "volentes ipsum infantem in dicto puteo demergere et aquam ipsius putey indeturpare et veneno afficere ita quod ex ipsa aqua deturpata et venenosa gustantes seu potantes ex ea nequarentur et morirentur." back

A Tender Age: Cultural Anxieties over the Child in the Twelfth and Thirteenth Centuries 2005

If you mean it in the “de dicto” sense, you mean you would like to one day meet whoever happens to be holding the office of mayor in New York.

A Few Further Questions About the FISA Bill 2008

Obviously, a “de re” expression refers to exactly one entity in the world, while a “de dicto” expression refers to a much larger number — any bearers of the relevant properties.

A Few Further Questions About the FISA Bill 2008

In philosophy, they call this the “de dicto/de re” distinction.

A Few Further Questions About the FISA Bill 2008

But if the conversion rules must be given a de dicto interpretation and the different syllogisms a de re interpretation, the whole system seems to collapse.

The Statue of a Writer 2009

Medieval logicians generally assumed that Aristotle dealt with de dicto modal sentences in the De Interpretatione and de re modal sentences in the Prior Analytics.

The Statue of a Writer 2009

Or in other words, there can be no difference between de re and de dicto if dealing with their religious system as such.

Tissier de Mallerais speaks The details of the doctrinal talks 2009

However, this intuitive sense corresponds to a de dicto reading of the modality, where the description in (31) has narrow scope:

Wild Dreams Of Reality, 3 2009

I think most people speaking in the de dicto sense are considering it as the highest form of a romantic relationship.

Marriage: De Dicto and De Re 2007

If, on the other hand, the de dicto reading is maintained, it is easily seen that they are valid in view of the validity of the non-modal conversion rules.

The Statue of a Writer 2009