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The sharp distinction between meaning, which is essential to the communicative function of language, and inflection, which is accidental, appears to be breaking down; the meaning of a tensed sentence is not purely a function of the lexical items of which it is composed plus the structure into which they are arranged. The modistic solution was to bridge the gap between inflection and meaning by treating all inflectional categories - including tense - as modi significandi, and to claim that they all relate to meaning in the same way, though the relation is more obvious in some instances than in others.
Est formatio dictionis cum dictione' (p. 55), that do not occur in Petrus' section on regimen, and even for one, 'regere nihil aliud est quam significationem suam alteri accommodare' (p. 58), that represents exactly the thesis that Petrus attacks. Johannes le Rus eschews regimen altogether and states his description in terms of determination Among the available writings of the Modistae proper, the only substantial discussion of regimen is that by Petrus Croccus, who in writing a commentary on the Doctrinale could hardly have avoided the topic.
Modus significandi accidentalis est qui advenit parti post eius esse completum, non dans esse simpliciter parti, nee secundum genus nee secundum speciem. , p. 148). , 'proper noun'). An accidental mode of signifying is what is added to a part of speech after it has all its essential features; the accidental mode does not, in itself, make the part of speech what it is, either with regard to class or with regard to subclass. The essential modes of signifying distinguish the various parts of speech, as well as making subordinate distinctions such as those between proper and common nouns, between substantives and adjectives, between cardinal and ordinal numerals, and the like.