a. Logic. [f. L. ampliāt- (see AMPLIATE v.) + -IVE.] Having the function of enlarging or extending a simple conception, or adding to what is already known.
1842. Abp. Thomson, Laws of Th., § 81 (1860), 142. Judgments which attribute to the subject something not directly implied in it, have been called ampliative, because they enlarge or increase our knowledge.
1852. Sir W. Hamilton, Disc., 273. Philosophy … is a transition from absolute ignorance to science, and its procedure is therefore ampliative.
