Meaning & use
Significate
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The object, concept, or idea that a word, sign, or symbol signifies or represents.
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In semiotics, the significate is distinguished from the sign that points to it.
Philosophers of language debated whether the significate of a term could exist independently of any mind.
A note on using this word
Rooted in scholastic logic, where it named the concept or object a term stands for, as distinct from the term itself.
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referentsignified
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