Universa Philosophia

Secondly by induction, because common supposition is either particular, by which a term is subrogated in place of a thing, or of a common and particular term: whence this proposition, Pompelona extruxit hanc Pyramidem sancto Ignatio, will be copulate supposition, because Pompelona is a copulated term. Yet it is taken by the Summulists in a somewhat different signification, for they say that supposition is copulate when a name is taken in the plural number to signify several things with a universal sign. Thus Villalpandus: but Toletus, when it is taken for all its significates taken collectively. For example, omnes Apostoli Dei sunt duodecim: the phrase omnes Apostoli is taken together, and the proposition ought not to be resolved distributively, for here the descent is bad, ergo Petrus est duodecim, but all ought to be coupled in the subject, as Petrus, Andreas, et reliqui Apostoli simul sumpti sunt duodecim. If, however, this second definition is rightly weighed, it does not differ from the former, because the Apostles are taken for the Apostolic College, which is a copulated term. For this proposition is the same, tota Pompelona dicat Pyramidem, as omnes Senatores Pompilonenses dicant Pyramidem. Therefore that plural term affected by a universal sign is taken for some aggregate of distinct things signified by way of one: but the word signifying them thus is copulate at least virtually, as omnes Apostoli signifies the same as Collegium Apostolorum: but it is trifling to seek a distinction between copulate and copulatively, no otherwise than if one sought a distinction between sensile and sensibile, distribute and distributively.