significatum

Their solution that the significatum totale or significatum adaequatum of a conclusion or proposition is the object of knowledge is not confined to conclusions or propositions concerning accidents, such as ˜homo est albus™, whose significatum totale is hominem esse album (which itself is a significabile per complexum).

Nicole Oresme Kirschner, Stefan 2009

Behind it is the fundamental view that regardless of whether a word is used in some context or not, it always has a significatum, i.e., the universal nature or essence it signifies, which can be separated from what the word comes to mean in a specific context.

Peter of Spain Spruyt, Joke 2007

On words with different meanings in virtue of a difference of accent (De vocabulis quae diversum significatum exhibent secundum differentiam accentus), ed. L.W. Daly, American Philosophical Society Memoirs 151, Philadelphia: American Philosophical Society, 1983.

John Philoponus Wildberg, Christian 2007

Thus, the real proposition, the ultimate significatum of a sentence that exists in our minds qua object of an act of judgment, can be equated with a state of affairs only in relation to its structure and semantic value, but not ontologically.

Walter Burley Conti, Alessandro 2004

Therefore, according to Burley's final view, the sense/significatum dichotomy is not equivalent to the intension/extension dichotomy, the latter being a sub-division of the former.

Walter Burley Conti, Alessandro 2004

In the De suppositionibus and De puritate the same idea is expressed by the definition of the formal supposition as the supposition that a term has when it supposits for its significatum or for the singular objects that instantiate it.

Walter Burley Conti, Alessandro 2004

Contrary to Ockham's concept of sign, it is not the logical function of referring to a significatum that stands in the foreground, but rather the sign's relation to a cognitive power.

Medieval Semiotics Meier-Oeser, Stephan 2003

Et quod ilius loci Ianisseri illos impedirent, significatum est: vt illi illis nocumento sint nullo modo concedimus.

The Principal Navigations, Voyages, Traffiques and Discoveries of the English Nation 2003

What gives the sign its linguistic value is the system of differences, on the one hand between signifiers, on the other be - tween signifieds (or significata, some writers in English preferring “significatum” to “signified” as a noun).

STRUCTURALISM PETER CAWS 1968

Quod utique degradationibus et excommunicationibus significatum est esse faciendum in hoc tempore, cum in ecclesiae disciplina visibilis fuerat gladius cessaturus.

The Works of Mr. George Gillespie (Vol. 1 of 2) George Gillespie 1630