suppositum
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English[edit]
Etymology[edit]
From the past participle of Latin supponere (“to suppose”).
Noun[edit]
suppositum (uncountable)
- (logic) Something supposed to be true; an assumption
- 1977, David Joel, Weissman - Eternal Possibilities: A Neutral Ground for Meaning and Existence:
- The answer may be that these relation-ships are generated in every possible world, given any suppositum of a certain least complexity.
Latin[edit]
Participle[edit]
suppositum
- inflection of suppositus:
References[edit]
- suppositum in Charles du Fresne du Cange’s Glossarium Mediæ et Infimæ Latinitatis (augmented edition with additions by D. P. Carpenterius, Adelungius and others, edited by Léopold Favre, 1883–1887)