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infinitation Logic.|ɪnfɪnɪˈteɪʃən|
[ad. Schol.L. infīnītātio (Abelard Dialectica 225), n. of action from infīnītāre: see prec.]
The action of infinitating or making ‘infinite’; the condition of being infinitated; hence, applied to one of the forms of immediate inference, also called permutation or obversion, in which one term, usually the predicate, of the original proposition is made negative.
1652Urquhart Jewel Wks. (1834) 205 For the affirmation, negation, and infinitation of propositions. 1864[see prec.]. 1867Fowler Deduct. Logic iii. ii. 77 The same inference is sometimes called Infinitation, from the Nomen Infinitum, or, more properly, Nomen Indefinitum (not-Y, as the contradictory of Y), which is employed as the predicate. 1867Atwater Logic 71 [Division] must not be a priori, or by Infinitation. |