| 单词 | existential import |
| 释义 | > as lemmasexistential import existential import n. significance concerning the existence of something, usually of an item denoted by the subject term of a proposition; the implication that something exists. ΚΠ 1881 J. Venn Symbolic Logic vii. 154 Having thus cleared the ground in respect of the general existential import of our propositions, we are now in a position to complete the discussion..as to the best mode of expressing symbolically the familiar propositions of ordinary Logic. 1898 A. N. Whitehead Treat. Universal Algebra p. vii A conventional mathematical definition has no existential import. 1946 Mind 55 109 The Ethics [of Spinoza] is a prolonged effort to deduce truths of existential import out of a combination of definitions. 2009 Analysis 69 27 There is a natural distinction to be drawn between the principles that have existential import and the ones that don't. < as lemmas |
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