Ampliative

Ampliative (from Latin ampliare, "to enlarge"), a term used mainly in logic, meaning "extending" or "adding to that which is already known".[1] This terminology was often used by medieval logicians in the analyses of the temporal content of their subject terms.[2] There were three rules outlined in its usage:

1. Common terms in a sentence only represent present things when they stand with a non-ampliating verb about the present;
2. A common term standing in a sentence with a verb about the past is able to stand for present and past things; and,
3. The common term standing with a verb about the future can indifferently stand for present and future things.[2]

There are Roman texts that refer to it as ampliatio.[3]

In Norman law, an ampliation was a postponement of a sentence in order to obtain further evidence.[1]

## See also

* Supposition

## Notes

1. ↑ 1.0 1.1 One or more of the preceding sentences incorporates text from a publication now in the public domain: Chisholm, Hugh, ed (1911). "Ampliative". Encyclopædia Britannica. 1 (11th ed.). Cambridge University Press. p. 893.
2. ↑ 2.0 2.1 Øhrstrøm, Peter; Hasle, Per (2007) (in en). Temporal Logic: From Ancient Ideas to Artificial Intelligence. Dordrecht: Springer Science & Business Media. pp. 39. ISBN 978-0-585-37463-5.
3. ↑ Friedman, Russell; Nielsen, L. O. (2003) (in en). The Medieval Heritage in Early Modern Metaphysics and Modal Theory, 1400–1700. Dordrecht: Springer Science & Business Media. pp. 286. ISBN 1-4020-1631-X.

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