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instantiate, v.|ɪnˈstænʃɪeɪt| [f. instance n. (L. instānti(a) + -ate3.] trans. To represent by an instance. Also inˈstantiative a., of or pertaining to such instances; inˈstantiating ppl. a.
1946H. H. Price in Proc. Brit. Acad. XXXII. 117 This act of recognizing..is at the same time the verifying of a proposition, the discovering of a fact or truth. The proposition in question is an existential proposition (it might also be called an instantiative proposition). 1949J. R. Jones in Philos. Rev. LVIII. 162 He expressly implies that they are instantiated in the concrete things to which they belong. 1951J. Holloway Lang. & Intelligence ii. 18 Two apples..both instantiate the single universal redness. 1954I. M. Copi Symbolic Logic iv. 100 The instantiating constant ‘b’ occurs in the premiss. 1959P. F. Strawson Individuals iv. 130 C is a member of a set of complete concepts K, such that all and only the members of K are, in fact, each uniquely instantiated. 1965A. Plantinga in M. Black Philos. in Amer. 214 God could instantiate P by instantiating P1. 1972Language XLVIII. 350 Thus the ambiguity of the distinctive-feature relations is mirrored by the ambiguity..of the implementation rule, thereby instantiating one of the chief consequences of the iconic function. |