Definitions
from The Century Dictionary.
- In logic: Having the quantification of the subject distinctly expressed: said of a proposition.
- Designated in advance.
- To determine upon in advance, as to settle upon the characters for which a collection is to be sampled in advance of the examination of the sample.
from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.
- adjective (Logic) A term used by Sir William Hamilton to define propositions having their quantity indicated by a verbal sign; ; -- contrasted with
preindesignate , defining propositions of which the quantity is not so indicated.
from Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License.
- adjective logic Having its
quantity indicated by averbal sign , as with "all", "none", etc. - verb To
designate in advance.
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Examples
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The next time the government votes to go to war, I think every congressman and senator should be required to pr predesignate someone in their family begins immediate military service.
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Planners may predesignate a target for on-call attack by aviation assets.
FM 100-61 Chptr 10 Air Support United States Army 1998
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Planners may predesignate a target for on-call attack by aviation assets.
FM 100-61 Chptr 10 Air Support United States Army 1998
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It follows that, in re-casting a literary or colloquial sentence for logical purposes, we should try to obtain a form in which the subject is distributed -- is either a singular term or a general term predesignate as
Logic Deductive and Inductive Carveth Read 1889
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Again, such a proposition as _Man is the paragon of animals_ is not a preindesignate, but an abstract proposition; the subject being elliptical for _Man according to his proper nature_; and the translation of it into a predesignate proposition is not _All men are paragons_; nor can _Some men_ be sufficient, since an abstract can only be adequately rendered by a distributed term; but we must say, _All men who approach the ideal_.
Logic Deductive and Inductive Carveth Read 1889
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The scientific course to adopt with propositions predesignate by _Most_ or _Few_, is to collect statistics and determine the percentage; thus,
Logic Deductive and Inductive Carveth Read 1889
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_Some_; but as _Most_ signifies that exceptions are known, and _Few_ that the exceptions are the more numerous, propositions thus predesignate are in fact exponibles, mounting to _Some are_ and _Some are not_.
Logic Deductive and Inductive Carveth Read 1889
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Propositions whose quantity is thus left indefinite are technically called 'preindesignate,' their quantity not being stated or designated by any introductory expression; whilst propositions whose quantity is expressed, as _All foundling-hospitals have a high death-rate_, or _Some wine is made from grapes_, are said to be 'predesignate.'
Logic Deductive and Inductive Carveth Read 1889
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Still, the quantity of the predicate is often an important consideration; and though in ordinary usage the predicate is seldom predesignate, Logicians agree that in every Negative Proposition (see § 2) the predicate is
Logic Deductive and Inductive Carveth Read 1889
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If you do not predesignate who your doctor is, your employer still directs your medical care.
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