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单词 explicit definition
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explicit definition
explicit definition n. chiefly Logic and Philosophy a definition which formally sets out the meaning of a concept or expression, as by specifying necessary and sufficient conditions for its applicability; a statement to the effect that the expression being defined has the same meaning as another expression which defines it; a definition which can be substituted for the defined expression in sentences in which that expression occurs.In technical contexts of mathematics, logic, etc., often contrasted with implicit definition.
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1853 Bibliotheca Sacra Jan. 25 He [sc. Socrates] resorted continually to explicit definitions, which he required his pupils to express at the outset in the best way they could, and, in the progress of the discussion,..to narrow or widen the compass of the definitions, till they answered all the demands of the subject, till they expressed the thing, the whole thing, and nothing but the thing.
a1856 W. Hamilton Lect. Metaphysics (1860) III. iii. 39 The full and explicit definition of Logic, therefore, is,—the science of the Laws of Thought as Thought; or, the science of the Laws of the Form of Thought; or, the science of the Formal Laws of Thought:—these being only three various expressions of what is really the same.
1936 A. J. Ayer Lang., Truth & Logic iii. 67 The vast majority of the definitions..in ordinary discourse are explicit definitions... Thus,..in the English language, the two symbols ‘oculist’ and ‘eye-doctor’ are synonymous.
1958 A. Pap Semantics & Necessary Truth I. ii. 40 Difficulties of this sort..presumably led mathematicians such as Hilbert to abandon the quest for explicit definitions of the terms ‘straight line’, ‘point’, ‘plane’, and instead to define them implicitly as whatever entities satisfy the formal axioms formulated by means of them.
2001 L. Udehn Methodological Individualism (2002) vi. 173 Carnap understands ‘explicit definition’ in a broad sense... An explicit definition is such that all statements about the object (or concept) defined (definiendum) can be eliminated and replaced by statements about the elements in terms of which it is defined (definiens).
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