| 单词 |
predesignation |
| 释义 |
predesignation|priːdɛsɪgˈneɪʃən, -dɛz-|
[n. of action from prec.: see -ation.]
1. The action of predesigning, or of predesignating; previous designation, appointment, or specification.
a1641Bp. R. Montagu Acts. & Mon. (1642) 26 For us men,..according to Promise, Prediction, Pre-designation, God to Man, in the fulnesse of time, came downe from heaven. 1701Norris Ideal World i. i. 36 Here is an express..prædesignation of them. 1883C. S. Peirce The. Prob. Infer. in Stud. Logic viii. 162 Suppose we were to draw our inferences without the predesignation of the character P [for which the class had been sampled]; then we might in every case find some recondite character in which those instances would all agree.
2. Logic. A sign of quantity prefixed to a term or proposition.
c1840Sir W. Hamilton Logic (1866) II. App. 273 They [logicians]..denominated a proposition universal or particular, as its subject merely was quantified by the predesignation some or all. 1864Bowen Logic v. 122 Having no sign or predesignation of Quantity affixed to it. |
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