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descriptum|dɪˈskrɪptəm|
Pl. -ta.
[a. L. dēscrīptum, neut. pa. pple. of dēscrībēre to describe.]
a. Linguistics. (Brøndal's term for) a sentence-element that has the function of numeration.
b. Philos. The object for which a description, or the descriptive element of a sentence, stands; a thing given by description.
1933[see descriptor]. 1936Mind XLV. 37 We might distinguish these two varieties..as the theories (1) that the Self is a Descriptum, and (2) that it is a Logical Construction. 1938H. Reichenbach Exper. & Prediction §25. 220 Existence is a quality not of individual things but of descripta. 1947R. Carnap Meaning & Necessity i. 32 The entity for which a description stands (if there is such an entity) will be called its descriptum. 1949Mind LVIII. 29, I shall call that which is described by the descriptor, the ‘descriptum’. The descriptum of an indicative sentence is what would be the case if the sentence were true; and of an imperative sentence, what would be the case if it were obeyed. 1953[see descriptor]. |