单词 | explicand |
释义 | explicandn. Philosophy. The thing to be explicated; = explicandum n. ΚΠ a1856 W. Hamilton Lect. Metaphysics (1860) IV. App. 379 The Medium or Explicative may be indefinitely various, according to the complexity of the Explicand; and so may the Explicate. 1882 W. James in Mind 7 195 Such a system of explaining notum per ignotum, of making the explicans borrow credentials from the explicand,..is a strange candidate for the honour of being a complete rationaliser of the world. 1969 D. Cairns tr. E. Husserl Formal & Trancendental Logic i. 58 What has happened now to the coincidence of identity between the total explicand and the total explicate? 1994 Social Text No. 39 36 For Nooteboom, travel is a philosophical adventure, with destinations presented as open questions rather than as explicands. This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, June 2016; most recently modified version published online March 2022). < n.a1856 |
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