Definitions
from The Century Dictionary.
- Pertaining to or derived from a verb.
- noun The doctrine of propositions or sentences.
from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.
- adjective (Gram.) Having a verb for its base; derived from a verb.
- noun The doctrine of propositions or sentences.
from Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License.
- noun The
doctrine ofpropositions orsentences .
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Examples
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Signs are rhematic signs (also called “sumisigns” and “rhemes”), dicisigns (also called “quasi-propositions”), or arguments (also called “suadisigns”), accordingly as they are predicational/relational in character, propositional in character, or argumentative in character.
Nobody Knows Nothing 2009
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These ten types of sign are simply called after the combination of their elements: an ordinary proposition is a dicentic-symbolic-legisign, a spontaneous cry a rhematic-indexical-sinsign, and so on.
Peirce's Theory of Signs Atkin, Albert 2006
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A fourth term is wanting, the rhematic, or logic of sentences.
Specimens of the Table Talk of Samuel Taylor Coleridge Samuel Taylor Coleridge 1803
ambyellen commented on the word rhematic
–adjective
1. pertaining to the formation of words.
2. pertaining to the rheme of a sentence.
May 29, 2009