instantiatev.
/ɪnˈstanʃɪeɪt/, U.S. /ᵻnzˈtæn(t)ʃiˌeɪt/, /ᵻnˈstæn(t)ʃiˌeɪt/ transitive. To represent by an instance.
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the world > relative properties > kind or sort > individual character or quality > an individual case or instance > find or furnish an instance or example of [verb (transitive)] > represent by an instance
instantiate1949
1949 J. R. Jones in Philos. Rev. 58 162 He expressly implies that they are instantiated in the concrete things to which they belong.
1951 J. Holloway Lang. & Intell. ii. 18 Two apples..both instantiate the single universal redness.
1959 P. 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.
1965 A. Plantinga in M. Black Philos. in Amer. 214 God could instantiate P by instantiating P1.
1972 Language 48 350 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.
Derivatives
inˈstantiating adj.
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the world > relative properties > kind or sort > individual character or quality > an individual case or instance > [adjective] > representing by an instance
instantiating1954
1954 I. M. Copi Symbolic Logic iv. 100 The instantiating constant ‘b’ occurs in the premiss.
inˈstantiative adj. of or pertaining to such instances.
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the world > relative properties > kind or sort > individual character or quality > an individual case or instance > [adjective]
instantial1647
instantiative1946
1946 H. H. Price in Proc. Brit. Acad. 32 117 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).
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