contentual

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English

Etymology

From content +‎ -ual.

Adjective

contentual (not comparable)

  1. (philosophy) Relating to content (as apposed to context).
    • 1904, Henry Waldgrave Stuart, The Logic of Self-realization:
      I shall wish, then, to indicate in a general way what I conceive to be the true and valuable significance of the Self-realization principle; namely, that it is essentially an ideal of ethical method, and not a contentual or descriptive ideal from which either the details or the generalities of right conduct are to be extracted; and I shall try to present the principles of such a method as will answer to the requirements of this ideal, thereby supplying an interpretation, in a strictly ethical sense, of the concept of derivation.
    • 1915, Evelyn Board Raynolds, The Realistic Concept of Independence, page 19:
      Presented evidence, appearance, sense experience, in itself, enjoys the rank of content of reality. That is, it claims to be real and deserves to be taken as such so long as proof to the contrary is wanting. I shall call this kind of knowledge 'contentual'; if I may be permitted to coin a word.
    • 1920, “The status of the categories”, in The Monist, volume 30, page 234:
      It seems to me that a true empiricist can easily note that we use "thought" in four distinct ways. First, thought is a term for a reflective process ; second, it is a term for data, the contentual entities which are objects of awareness; third, it is a term for the act of awareness; fourth, it is a term for an idea of an object, for the contentual thought of an object of reference, for a specific knowledge-claim.
    • 2008, Ryan Christensen, Minimal truth, page 74:
      It seems that there is no locution in English that must be read as a prosentence, no argument that requires this reading. Any locution offered as the natural-language paraphrase of contentual quantification can be read in another way.

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