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Ampliative

Am"pli*a*tive\, a. (Logic) Enlarging a conception by adding to that which is already known or received.

"All bodies possess power of attraction" is an ampliative judgment; because we can think of bodies without thinking of attraction as one of their immediate primary attributes. --Abp. W. Thomson.
Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary, © 1996, 1998 MICRA, Inc.
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