suppositum
English
editEtymology
editFrom the past participle of Latin supponere (“to suppose”).
Noun
editsuppositum (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
editParticiple
editsuppositum
- 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)