Ampliative (from Latin ''ampliare'', "to enlarge"), a term used mainly in
logic
Logic is the study of correct reasoning. It includes both formal and informal logic. Formal logic is the science of deductively valid inferences or of logical truths. It is a formal science investigating how conclusions follow from premises ...
, meaning "extending" or "adding to that which is already known".
This terminology was often used by
medieval logicians in the analyses of the temporal content of their subject terms.
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.
There are Roman texts that refer to it as ''ampliatio''.
In
Norman
Norman or Normans may refer to:
Ethnic and cultural identity
* The Normans, a people partly descended from Norse Vikings who settled in the territory of Normandy in France in the 10th and 11th centuries
** People or things connected with the Norm ...
law, an ampliation was a postponement of a
sentence in order to obtain further
evidence
Evidence for a proposition is what supports this proposition. It is usually understood as an indication that the supported proposition is true. What role evidence plays and how it is conceived varies from field to field.
In epistemology, evidenc ...
.
See also
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Supposition
Notes
Legal terminology
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