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Definition of Predesignate
1. a. A term used by Sir William Hamilton to define propositions having their quantity indicated by a verbal sign; as, all, none, etc.; -- contrasted with preindesignate, defining propositions of which the quantity is not so indicated.
Definition of Predesignate
1. Verb. To designate in advance. ¹
¹ Source: wiktionary.com
Definition of Predesignate
1. [v -NATED, -NATING, -NATES]
Lexicographical Neighbors of Predesignate
Literary usage of Predesignate
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. Logic, Deductive and Inductive by Carveth Read (1909)
"The scientific course to adopt with propositions predesignate by Most or Few, is
to collect statistics and determine the percentage ; thus, ..."
2. Lectures on Metaphysics and Logic by William Hamilton (1860)
"2. of a Unit Indivisible — Individual or Singular Judgments. Indefinite Quantity —
forming Particular Judgments. their Quantity Expressed — predesignate. ..."
3. Studies in Logic by Charles Sanders Peirce, Allan Marquand, Christine Ladd-Franklin, Oscar Howard Mitchell, Benjamin Ives Gilman, Johns Hopkins University (1883)
"But in fact this instance requires the formula to be modified; and the modification
not being predesignate, the instance cannot count. ..."
4. Logic, Inductive and Deductive by William Minto (1894)
"All the above propositions are " predesignate " uni- versals, and reducible to
the form All S is P, or No S is P. The following propositions are no less ..."
5. Logic, Inductive and Deductive by William Minto (1894)
"All the above propositions are " predesignate " uni- versals, and reducible to
the form All S is P, or No S is P. The following propositions are no less ..."
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