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  • Supplement on Three Complications about Attributive Good for further complications that arise when we consider the attributive sense of “good”.

    Value Theory Schroeder, Mark 2008

  • The position of G.E. Moore (Principia Ethica, Cam - bridge [1903], Ch. 6) may be cited as an example of the Attributive view.

    Dictionary of the History of Ideas MONROE C. BEARDSLEY 1968

  • An Attributive Adjective is one that limits its subject directly; as, -- vir sapiēns, _a wise man_.

    New Latin Grammar Charles E. Bennett

  • When the Adjective is Attributive, it regularly agrees in number with the nearest noun; as, -- pater tuus et māter, _your father and mother_; eadem alacritās et studium, _the same eagerness and zeal_.

    New Latin Grammar Charles E. Bennett

  • Attributive according to the kind of thing signified.

    Deductive Logic St. George William Joseph Stock

  • When the Adjective is Attributive, it regularly agrees in gender with the nearest noun; as, -- rēs operae multae ac labōris, _a matter of much effort and labor_.

    New Latin Grammar Charles E. Bennett

  • Participles it may be used either as Attributive or Predicate.

    New Latin Grammar Charles E. Bennett

  • An Attributive then may be defined as a term which signifies the possession, or non-possession, of an attribute by a subject.

    Deductive Logic St. George William Joseph Stock

  • Logic_, aided in reviving the important distinction treated of in the text, proposes the term “Attributive” as a substitute for

    A System Of Logic, Ratiocinative And Inductive John Stuart Mill 1839

  • With another distinction, each of the three types come in two modes, yielding six categories in total: o Attributive: The entity, person or concept being described is referred to as the Carrier, while the role of Attribute refers to the quality ascribed to that Carrier.

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