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Words, grammatical forms and meanings linked to the ontology.
sentential en · ADJ
Pronunciation
Etymology
From Latin sententialis.
Meanings
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(not-comparable) Relating to a sentence.
Deriveds
cosentential · intrasentential · sentential calculus · intersentential · sentential variable · sententialist · nonsentential · presentential · subsentential · sentential logic · sentential connective · sententially · sentential formula · sententiality · extrasentential · prosentential · sententialism
Relateds
sententious
Translations (5)
it sentenziale (relating to a sentence) · el προτασιακός (relating to a sentence) · de satzwertig (relating to a sentence) · sh rečèničnī (relating to a sentence) · ro sentențios (relating to a sentence)
sentential en · NOUN
Pronunciation
Etymology
From Latin sententialis.
Meanings
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A portion of a sentence or utterance that could act on its own as a complete sentence.
Scientific, moral, and penal laws are formally universal, sentential propositions. Austin noted the requirement that the commands or expression of desire be general. Han Feizi never restricts faˢᵗᵃⁿᵈᵃʳᵈˢ to either sententials or universal sententials. His account is notoriously about mingⁿᵃᵐᵉ and xingᵖᵘⁿⁱˢʰᵐᵉⁿᵗ.
2000, Chad Hansen, A Daoist Theory of Chinese Thought, page 349:Near-synonym: clause
Furthermore, children demonstrated that they understood the mapping by elaborating phrasals to sententials, and reducing sententials to phrasals when imitating.
1985, Dan Isaac Slobin, The Crosslinguistic Study of Language Acquisition, page 105:
Forms
Synonyms
clause