infinitation Logic.
(ɪnfɪnɪˈteɪʃən)
[ad. Schol.L. infīnītātio (Abelard Dialectica 225), n. of action from infīnītāre: see prec.]
The action of infinitating or making ‘infinite’; the condition of being infinitated; hence, applied to one of the forms of immediate inference, also called permutation or obversion, in which one term, usually the predicate, of the original proposition is made negative.
| 1652 Urquhart Jewel Wks. (1834) 205 For the affirmation, negation, and infinitation of propositions. 1864 [see prec.]. 1867 Fowler Deduct. Logic iii. ii. 77 The same inference is sometimes called Infinitation, from the Nomen Infinitum, or, more properly, Nomen Indefinitum (not-Y, as the contradictory of Y), which is employed as the predicate. 1867 Atwater Logic 71 [Division] must not be a priori, or by Infinitation. |