A substantival constituent. From Wordnet, Princeton University.
G. G.ach used the expression ˜substantival™ to characterize the kinds of term F and G.are. From Wordnik.com. [Sortals] Reference
The primary beliefs in a causal and substantival order were elaborated into fundamental principles of philos - ophy. From Wordnik.com. [CAUSATION] Reference
Ac - cording to Kant, our minds so operate as to construe the congeries of sensation in substantival and causal ways. From Wordnik.com. [CAUSATION] Reference
And this is not the end of the matter, for it does not address the issue of such substantival terms as ˜blood™ and. From Wordnik.com. [Jamestown] Reference
Every musical term, adjectival, substantival, occurs to us as we read the thousand and odd pages of the two volumes. From Wordnik.com. [Women in the Life of Balzac] Reference
The qualification ˜substantival predicate-expressions™ above is suggested by an issue noted by Frege, who writes that. From Wordnik.com. [Jamestown] Reference
Anything whatever can be introduced into discussion by means of a singular, definitely identifying substantival expression ¦. From Wordnik.com. [Jamestown] Reference
Turning an adjectival similarity relation into a substantival one having the form of an identity statement yields an identity statement in name only. From Wordnik.com. [Relative Identity] Reference
Geach did not use the word ˜sortal™ but most commentators identify his notion of a ˜substantival expression™ with ˜sortal™ in the other writers. From Wordnik.com. [Sortals] Reference
Reply: The distinction between identity and similarity statements (or sentences) is usually drawn in terms of the distinction between substantival and adjectival common nouns. From Wordnik.com. [Relative Identity] Reference
One strategy, then, for undermining the idea that a category is substantival is to highlight the multiplicity of individuals and categories "in between" the primary category and its implicit opposite. From Wordnik.com. [Feminist Metaphysics] Reference
Whereas atoms are primary principles of material substance, voids are non-substantival principles of separation in which bodies are located, and by which they are separated and have their particular sort of supra-atomic structure. From Wordnik.com. [Pierre Gassendi] Reference
And on the other hand, it is plain that they may be ˜introduced into discussion™ by way of plural substantival expressions, e.g. by the definite description ˜the beavers in Lake Superior™ or even by the demonstrative ˜those beavers™. From Wordnik.com. [Jamestown] Reference
Even if it were possible for self-consciousness to be illusory, its mere occurrence is enough to refute those who take the view that the notion of a substantival self is as 'meaningless' as the notion of an unknowable substratum of material things. From Wordnik.com. [Campbell on Self-Consciousness and the Substantival Self] Reference
At least one of the descriptions included in the intended character should presumably be a sortal or “substantival” description which determines the identity of the object and the criteria by which it can be distinguished from other objects (cf. Hilpinen 1992, 61). From Wordnik.com. [Artifact] Reference
˜gold™ is a substantival term, though we cannot use it for counting. From Wordnik.com. [Sortals] Reference
In the second and third alike, the altered words are a subordinate substantival clause, the object to told. From Wordnik.com. [Grammar & Punctuation.] Reference
In writing of substantival and adjectival clauses, our appeal was for more logical precision than is usual. From Wordnik.com. [Grammar & Punctuation.] Reference
˜substantival™ coincides in many cases with sortals as understood by others, but cannot be entirely the same since he cites. From Wordnik.com. [Sortals] Reference
Kasemann has seen that there is no way to bind a substantival body and a substantial soul together except by mythological speculation. From Wordnik.com. [Mere Orthodoxy] Reference
With substantival clauses this is seldom true; they are usually the subjects, objects, or complements, of the verbs, that is, are grammatically essential. From Wordnik.com. [Grammar & Punctuation.] Reference
That is, a substantival clause out of its place is generally allowed the comma that all but the straitest sect of punctuators would refuse it in its place. From Wordnik.com. [The Colon.] Reference
But what we wish to draw attention to is a distinction in this respect, very generally disregarded, between the substantival clause and the two other kinds. From Wordnik.com. [Grammar & Punctuation.] Reference
Further, it must be remembered that substantival clauses include indirect questions as well as indirect statements, and that the same rules will apply to them. From Wordnik.com. [Grammar & Punctuation.] Reference
The comma before whether in the next is actually misleading; we are tempted to take as adverbial what is really a substantival clause, object to the verbal noun indifference. From Wordnik.com. [Grammar & Punctuation.] Reference
˜gold™ as an example of a substantival, in fact: we can speak of the same gold as being first a statue and then a great number of coins, but "How many golds?" does not make sense. From Wordnik.com. [Sortals] Reference
I am inclined to think it is only an inference from the want of substantival names in so many Roman deities; surely, it would be argued, the pontifices must have had some reason for this. From Wordnik.com. [The Religious Experience of the Roman People From the Earliest Times to the Age of Augustus] Reference
Grammar, however, would afford some justification for distinguishing between the substantival clause as subject, object, or complement, and the substantival clause in apposition with one of these. From Wordnik.com. [Grammar & Punctuation.] Reference
Before going on to examples of substantival clauses, we also register, again rather for the curious than for the practical reader, the peculiar but common use of should contained in the following. From Wordnik.com. [Shall and Will.] Reference
Proper names they had not as a rule, but they are getting cult-titles under the influence of a priesthood, which titles may in time perhaps attain to something of the definiteness of substantival names. From Wordnik.com. [The Religious Experience of the Roman People From the Earliest Times to the Age of Augustus] Reference
As the division of substantival clauses into indirect (or reported or subordinate or oblique) statements, questions, and commands, is familiar, it may be well to explain that in English the reported command strictly so called hardly exists. From Wordnik.com. [Shall and Will.] Reference
After each of the substantival clauses, of which examples now follow, we shall say whether it is a reported (subordinated) statement, or question, and give what we take to be the original form of the essential words, even when further comment is unnecessary. From Wordnik.com. [Shall and Will.] Reference
Category proliferation ” the generation of a continuum or genuinely "mixed" categories ” can loosen the grip of substantival assumptions. From Wordnik.com. [Feminist Metaphysics] Reference
Verbs in and by themselves are substantival and have significance, for he who uses such expressions arrests the hearer’s mind, and fixes his attention; but they do not, as they stand, express any judgement, either positive or negative. From Wordnik.com. [On Interpretation] Reference
˜singular substantival expressions™ ” there would seem to be an obvious objection to the doctrine, an objection echoing Russell's rejoinder to Leibniz. From Wordnik.com. [Jamestown] Reference
The substantival clause. From Wordnik.com. [Grammar & Punctuation.] Reference
40; with substantival inf. From Wordnik.com. [A Complete Grammar of Esperanto] Reference
Or, like Bahnsen, substantival monism, aka, personalism. From Wordnik.com. [Triablogue] Reference
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