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Next it gives a definition of the related terms suppositio and copulatio, and the differences between the terms significatio, suppositio and copulatio.
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The link between significatio and suppositio is the following.
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The distinction between significatio and suppositio naturalis persisted throughout the thirteenth and fourteenth centuries.
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When some word has acquired a signification by an impositor (= someone who bestows a meaning upon a word), then it connotes a univeral nature or essence, and acquires a natural capacity to stand for all the actual and possible individuals that share in this common nature; it owes this capacity to its significatio.
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The counterpart of significatio, the formal constituent of every meaning, is the word's capacity to "stand for" different things
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Suppositio is dependent on significatio, because supposition can only occur via a term that already has some significatio.
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From this definition and the example just presented it appears that the extensional features of significatio and suppositio naturalis overlap.
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The primary semantic property of a word is its significatio, in Peter's definition, the "representation of a thing by a word in accordance with convention".
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There is a more telling difference between significatio and suppositio naturalis, however.
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The significatio of a word depends on its imposition, i.e., the application originally given to the word in question.
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