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Ampliative (from Latin ampliare, "to enlarge"), a term used mainly in logic, meaning "extending" or "adding to that which is already known".[1]
This terminology was often used by medieval logicians in the analyses of the temporal content of their subject terms.[2] There were three rules outlined in its usage:
There are Roman texts that refer to it as ampliatio.[3]
In Norman law, an ampliation was a postponement of a sentence in order to obtain further evidence.[1]
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