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]
- ^ a b One or more of the preceding sentences incorporates text from a publication now in the public domain: Chisholm, Hugh, ed. (1911). "Ampliative". Encyclopædia Britannica. Vol. 1 (11th ed.). Cambridge University Press. p. 893.
- ^ a b Øhrstrøm, Peter; Hasle, Per (2007). Temporal Logic: From Ancient Ideas to Artificial Intelligence. Dordrecht: Springer Science & Business Media. p. 39. ISBN 978-0-585-37463-5.
- ^ Friedman, Russell; Nielsen, L. O. (2003). The Medieval Heritage in Early Modern Metaphysics and Modal Theory, 1400–1700. Dordrecht: Springer Science & Business Media. p. 286. ISBN 1-4020-1631-X.
