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