Ampliative

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From The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48 [gcide]:

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