[Revised entry by Julie Brumberg-Chaumont and E. Jennifer Ashworth on July 22, 2024.
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A singular term is a term such as a proper name, a demonstrative pronoun, like ‘this [one]’ (‘hic’ in Latin), or a combination of a demonstrative pronoun and a common name, like (‘this man’), (‘hic homo’ in Latin). This is the stable list of discrete terms we find in terminist tracts from the beginning of the thirteenth century on. What they have in common is that they all signify exactly one individual thing. These expressions, as well as the metalinguistic expressions used to…

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