Ampliative (from Latin ampliare, "to enlarge"), a term used mainly in logic, meaning "extending" or "adding to that which is already known".[1]
This terminology was often used by medieval logicians in the analyses of the temporal content of their subject terms.[2] There were three rules outlined in its usage:
- Common terms in a sentence only represent present things when they stand with a non-ampliating verb about the present;
- A common term standing in a sentence with a verb about the past is able to stand for present and past things; and,
- The common term standing with a verb about the future can indifferently stand for present and future things.[2]
There are Roman texts that refer to it as ampliatio.[3]
In Norman law, an ampliation was a postponement of a sentence in order to obtain further evidence.[1]
See also
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Notes
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