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subalternate

[suhb-awl-ter-nit, -al-] / sʌbˈɔl tər nɪt, -ˈæl- /


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As before, the conclusion in the constructive type resolves itself into the subalternate of the major itself, and in the destructive type into the subalternate of its contrapositive.

From Deductive Logic by St. George William Joseph Stock

One of the hens was his favourite, the others filled subalternate parts.

From A Literary History of the English People From the Origins to the Renaissance by Jean Jules Jusserand

Shrubs or trees with opposite, rarely subalternate, simple, deciduous leaves.

From Trees of the Northern United States Their Study, Description and Determination by A. C. (Austin Craig) Apgar

But science and virtue are distinct from one another as genera which are not subalternate, as the Philosopher proves in Topic. iv.

From Summa Theologica, Part I-II (Pars Prima Secundae) From the Complete American Edition by Saint Aquinas Thomas

Now "substance" and "evidence" are different genera, and neither is subalternate to the other.

From Summa Theologica, Part II-II (Secunda Secundae) Translated by Fathers of the English Dominican Province by Saint Aquinas Thomas




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