单词 | subdisjunctive |
释义 | subdisjunctiveadj.n. A. adj. 1. Logic. Asserting that at least one of a list of possibilities holds, while not ruling out the possibility that more than one holds. historical in later use (disjunctive now being the usual term). ΘΚΠ the mind > mental capacity > philosophy > logic > logical proposition > [adjective] > disjunctive discretive1542 disjunctive1587 disjunct1608 discrete1628 subdisjunctive1656 hypothetico-disjunctivea1856 1656 T. Stanley Hist. Philos. II. viii. 46 Contraries are either disjunctive or subdisjunctive. 1702 Lives Anc. Philosophers vii. 293 Some Contraries are disjunctive, as, 'Tis either Day or Night: some sub-disjunctive, as, He either sits or walks, he neither sits nor walks. 1849 H. Melville Mardi II. lxvii. 280 My contrary axioms are Disjunctive, and Subdisjunctive. 1961 I. Thomas tr. J. M. Bocheński Hist. Formal Logic. iii. 120 In some propositions not only one, but more or all components can be true, and one must be. Some call such ‘sub-disjunctive’ (παραδιεζευγμένα). 2006 K. Ierodiakonou in M. L. Gill & P. Pellerin Compan. Anc. Philos. iv. xxvi. 513 A subdisjunctive axiōma (paradiezeugmenon) is a non-simple axiōma which..is true either when its subdisjuncts do not conflict with each other or when the contradictories of its subdisjuncts are not mutually incompatible. ΘΚΠ the mind > language > linguistics > study of grammar > a part of speech > conjunction > [adjective] > disjunctive > subdisjunctive subdisjunctive1786 1786 J. H. Tooke Επεα Πτεροεντα vii. 153 We shall get rid of that farrago of useless distinctions [of conjunctions] into Conjunctive, Adjunctive, Disjunctive, Subdisjunctive, [etc.]. 1836 A. Crombie Gymnasium (rev. ed.) 119 Vel, ‘or’, is commonly called a disjunctive, and seu or sive, a subdisjunctive conjunction. 1865 H. G. Liddell & R. Scott Greek Lex. (ed. 5) ὑποδιαζευκτικός..as Gramm. word, subdisjunctive. B. n. ΘΚΠ the mind > mental capacity > philosophy > logic > logical proposition > [noun] > disjunctive or alternative proposition > subdisjunctive proposition subdisjunctive1656 1656 T. Stanley Hist. Philos. II. viii. 46 Subdisjunctive [contraries] are of two kinds, either in whole, betwixt universalls,..or in part, betwixt particulars... Of subdisjunctives in whole, both cannot be true, both may be false; both cannot be affirmative, both cannot be negative. Of subdisjunctives in part, both may be true, because they are taken in part. 2. Grammar. A disjunctive conjunction connecting two words or phrases which have the same referent. ΘΚΠ the mind > language > linguistics > study of grammar > a part of speech > conjunction > [noun] > disjunctive > subdisjunctive subdisjunctive1751 subdisjunction1869 1751 J. Harris Hermes ii. ii. 258 The Latins had a peculiar Particle for this occasion, which they called Subdisjunctiva, a Subdisjunctive; and that was Sive. a1831 J. Stoddart Gram. in Encycl. Metrop. (1845) I. 162/2 Priscian distinguishes the subdisjunctive from the disjunctive... In English we use the conjunction or indifferently as a disjunctive or subdisjunctive, that is, we say, ‘Alexander or Paris’, whether Alexander and Paris be two different persons, or only two different names for the same person. 1860 R. G. Latham Elem. Eng. Gram. (rev. ed.) 180 Subdisjunctives separate names. When we say Victoria, or the Queen of England, is our sovereign, we speak of the same object, under different names. 1906 Sc. Hist. Rev. 3 229 Dr. McKechnie..takes vel as a subdisjunctive, and translates and. 2008 T. Parsons in D. V. Gabbay & J. Woods Handbk. Hist. Logic II. 171 ‘Or’ is taken sometimes as a disjunctive and at other times as a subdisjunctive. This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, June 2012; most recently modified version published online March 2022). < adj.n.1656 |
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