| 单词 | designatum | 
| 释义 | designatumn. Philosophy.   The object or class of objects designated by a particular sign or symbol. Cf. denotatum n. ΘΚΠ the mind > mental capacity > philosophy > philosophy of language > meaning > 			[noun]		 > denotation > referent designatum1923 1923    C. I. Lewis in  Jrnl. Philos. 20 142  				[We are] lacking some word to indicate this objective or designatum of a proposition. 1940    B. Russell Inq. into Meaning & Truth vii. 109  				The designatum of ‘this’ is continually changing. 1958    W. Meyer  & J. Wilkinson tr.  R. Carnap Introd. Symb. Logic §20  				The color red is the designatum of the French word ‘rouge’. 1983    J. Margolis in  R. Copeland  & M. Cohen What is Dance? v. 377  				It is not..necessary..that the putative vocabulary of art be fixed;..what is necessary is that there be designata for relevant symbols. 2004    R. L. Gregory Oxf. Compan. to Mind 		(ed. 2)	 at Symbols  				Some [symbols that purport to designate] fail—for example, ‘Pegasus’—for want of a designatum. This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, March 2012; most recently modified version published online March 2022). <  | 
	
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