Mutabaqah is a word’s indication of its entire assigned meaning. The book illustrates it with “human” indicating the complete concept “rational animal.”
We do not select only one component or an implication; the word points to the whole concept for which it was assigned.
Human → rational animal is mutabaqah.
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Definition of whole-meaning indication
The Three Kinds of Conventional Verbal Indication
Mutabaqah is a word’s indication of its entire assigned meaning. The book illustrates it with “human” indicating the complete concept “rational animal.”
We do not select only one component or an implication; the word points to the whole concept for which it was assigned.
Human → rational animal is mutabaqah.