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Meanings of attributive in anglès

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prenominal

Of adjectives; placed before the nouns they modify.

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      атрибутив

      Grammatical feature.

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            Usage of attributive in anglès
            1
            The word 'attributive' in logic embraces both the adjective and participle of grammar.
            Deductive Logic
            2
            The attributive is defined, so far as it can be, through the corresponding abstract term.
            Deductive Logic
            3
            An attributive is not directly the name of anything.
            Deductive Logic
            4
            When an attributive appears to be used as a subject, it is owing to a grammatical ellipse.
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            5
            River broad again - tending W.S.W., with a broad flattened island with attributive sandbanks in the middle.
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            6
            The subject-term, 'man,' and its corresponding attributive, 'human,' have both extension and intension, distinct from one another.
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            7
            For definition is of things through names, and an attributive out of predication is not the name of anything.
            Deductive Logic
            8
            Now, we cannot intelligibly predicate an attributive of the abstract quality, or qualities, the possession of which it implies.
            Deductive Logic
            9
            Whether an attributive is abstract or concrete, depends on the nature of the subject of which it is asserted or denied.
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            10
            A gentle pressure of the hand was the only recognition, yet the young lawyer cherished hopes that were solely attributive to himself.
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            11
            When we say 'Socrates was a man,' we convey to the mind the idea of the same attributes which are implied by the attributive 'human.'
            Deductive Logic
            12
            They cease to be logical attributives the moment they are so used.
            Deductive Logic
            13
            Definition is confined to subject-terms, and does not properly extend to attributives.
            Deductive Logic
            14
            The distinction between relative and absolute applies to attributives as well as subject-terms.
            Deductive Logic
            15
            Logic, however, also recognises as attributives terms which signify the non-possession of attributes.
            Deductive Logic
            16
            Common terms, other than attributives, ought always to admit of definition.
            Deductive Logic
            Translations for attributive
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            prenominal
            Attributive through the time