| 释义 |
instantiation|ɪnstænʃɪˈeɪʃən|
[f. as prec. + -ation.]
The action or fact of instantiating; representation by an instance. Also attrib.
1949J. R. Jones in Philos. Rev. LVIII. 162 It is the view that instantiation is necessarily a dyadic relation. 1953H. H. Price Thinking & Experience i. 18 It is not easy to see how the doctrine of universalia in rebus can make room for this important and familiar notion of instantiation. 1954A. J. Ayer Philos. Ess. i. 18 The {semE}x..has no descriptive force; it serves only to make an instantiation claim. 1954I. M. Copi Symbolic Logic iv. 98 The instantiation rules UI and EI must be reformulated. 1956E. H. Hutten Lang. Mod. Physics vi. 234 The second alternative, i.e. by instantiation, similarly suggests that we use the law as an empty schema. 1964M. Black Compan. to Wittgenstein's Tractatus lxiii. 293 W. [sc. Wittgenstein] modifies the convention by demanding that visibly different variables shall be treated differently for the purpose of instantiation. 1972Language XLVIII. 343 But a more difficult task also confronts the linguist: discovering the universal laws underlying language as a whole, of which specific rules are instantiations. |