Concept
Demonstrative
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words indicating which object is being referred to
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The demonstrative is that which concerns itself with the praise or blame of some particular individual; the deliberative is that which, having its place in discussion and in political debate, comprises a deliberate statement of one's opinion; the judicial is that which, having its place in judicial proceedings, comprehends the topics of accusation and defence; or of demand and refusal. And, as our own opinion at…
Marcus Tullius Cicero, The Orations of Marcus Tullius Cicero, Volume 4
States what Demonstrative is; names Demonstrative twice.
We can gain some idea of this necessity of things for thought by examination of the structure of a proposition. Let us suppose that a proposition is being communicated by an expositor to a recipient. Such a proposition is composed of phrases; some of these phrases may be demonstrative and others may be descriptive. By a demonstrative phrase I mean a phrase which makes the recipient aware of an entity in a way which…
Alfred North Whitehead, The Concept of Nature The Tarner Lectures Delivered in Trinity College, November 1919
Names Demonstrative several times.
The discussion then advances to the subject of degrees of knowledge, of which Locke recognizes three,--intuitive, demonstrative, and sensitive. Intuitive knowledge is immediate knowledge,--recognition of likeness or difference without the intervention of a third idea; it is the most certain and clear of all knowledge.
John Dewey, Leibniz's New Essays Concerning the Human Understanding
Names Demonstrative several times; opens on Demonstrative.
Philosophers who discussed Demonstrative
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Part of Analytic philosophy.