designatum

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Noun1.designatum - something (whether existing or not) that is referred to by a linguistic expression
referent - something referred to; the object of a reference
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Then the rules of truth of the system determine that [beta]([alpha]) is true (in the system) if, and only if, the designatum of [alpha] has the property designated by [beta].
Norberto Bobbio, em obra classica dedicada ao estudo do positivismo juridico, assevera que "interpretar significa remontar do signo (signum) a coisa significada (designatum), isto e, compreender o significado do signo, individualizando a coisa por este indicada" (1995, p.
In altri casi una forma che non presenta nessuna traccia di regionalita, ne nell'assetto linguistico ne per il designatum, potrebbe effettivamente essersi irradiata dal Mezzogiorno, giacche le testimonianze dei repertori di provincialismi sono confermate dall'insussistenza di esempi letterari precedenti e dall'assenza nei grandi dizionari tardo-ottocenteschi (TB, GB, P), in varia misura collettori di toscanismi d'uso.
According to Langacker (1987: 198), "the profiling of the interconnected entities is collective: the region as a whole (the full set of entities) functions as the designatum and constitutes one instance of the [THING] category".
The condition is that a term or term-occurrence stands in the relation of ascription to its designatum, ascription being a fundamental semantic relation that differs from reference.
This observation led into considering the possibility of applying the Langackerian notion of active zones within a given profile (or designatum) to actually explain the subtleties of meaning of what could in essence be regarded as the same conceptual construct.
In interdisciplinary terms, it brings about Cusanus' aestheticalization and theologization of his episteme because the real designatum of knowledge is always postulated to stand above what we really know in our human rationality and position.
630: 'decenter impleat designatum sibi legendi officium.' A single offence constitutes a light fault with a penance of one Psalm.
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