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‖ suppositio materialis Logic.|sʌpəˈzɪʃɪəʊ mətɪərɪˈeɪlɪs|
[med.L.]
Reference to a word or phrase used simply as an example within a statement, and devoid of its normal semantic function.
1843Mill Logic I. ii. ii. 29 This employment of a word to denote the mere letters and syllables of which it is composed, was termed by the schoolmen the suppositio materialis of the word. 1921W. E. Johnson Logic I. x. 169 The scholastic logicians introduced the phrase ‘suppositio materialis’..but modern logicians have interpreted this phrase as equivalent to what they call the ‘universe of discourse’. 1935H. Straumann Newspaper Headlines ii. 67 The two sentences: 1. The first line of Gray's Elegy states a proposition, and 2. ‘The first line of Gray's Elegy’ does not state a proposition. Both utterances are true, but in the second case the validity entirely depends on the inverted commas. This phenomenon used to be well known in mediaeval scholasticism under the name of suppositio materialis, and it still plays an essential part in semantics. 1961[see hypostasis 8]. |