单词 | ante-predicament |
释义 | ante-predicamentn. Logic. Chiefly historical. Usually in plural. Any of various concepts or relations treated at the beginning of Aristotle’s Categories, before the discussion of the categories (the predicaments) themselves; a concept necessary for understanding the Aristotelian categories. See predicament n. 1, category n. 1a. Cf. postpredicament n. ΘΚΠ the mind > mental capacity > philosophy > ancient Greek philosophy > post-Socratic philosophy > [noun] > Aristotelianism > elements of material cause1393 matterc1395 matter subjecta1398 predicamenta1425 quality?1537 first substance1551 predicable1551 property1551 proprium1551 transcendent1581 final cause1587 category1588 habit1588 ante-predicament?1596 postpredicament1599 entelechy1603 transumption1628 secondary1656 objective cause1668 transcendental1668 general substance1697 third man1801 thought-form1834 posterioristic universal1902 ousia1917 ?1596 W. Bathe Briefe Introd. Skill of Song To Rdr. sig. A.iijv Aristotle in setting forth his predicaments, saw many things requisite to be entreated off: and yet vnfit to be mixed with his treatise: he therefore made ante predicaments, and post predicaments. 1632 D. Lupton London & Countrey Carbonadoed xii. 54 They haue skill in the Anteprædicaments & the Fallacies. 1706 Phillips's New World of Words (new ed.) Antepredicaments (in Logick) things necessary to be known before-hand, for the better understanding of the Predicaments; as Definitions of Terms, etc. 1783 Monthly Rev. May 458 We here meet with a very accurate account of the predicaments, and the ante-predicaments, and the post-predicaments. 1878 F. Garden Dict. Eng. Philos. Terms 62 Ens was also used by the schoolmen to denote existence in the abstract, and was thus one of the ante-predicaments or transcendentals. 1961 R. McInerny Logic of Analogy (1971) ii. 34 Not only is analogical signification an antepredicament, it is as well a kind of equivocation. 2005 Rev. Metaphysics 58 882 After the usual prolegomena, Simplicius then turns to examine the ante-predicaments. This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, March 2016; most recently modified version published online December 2021). < n.?1596 |
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