Explicans

Quick meaning: Explicans is a noun meaning The underlying meaning of an explicandum.

Meaning

The underlying meaning of an explicandum.

Example Sentences

The single pattern that came to have wide acceptance was that the explicandum must follow as a logical consequence of the explicans.

The explicans in such an explanation is an event the occurrence of which possessing a certain property, in conjunction with other events with suitable properties, nomically determines the occurrence of the explicandum-event with a certain property.

Thus when a function statement gives the explicandum, e.g. alcohol consumption, privileged joking, witchcraft inheritance, as a sufficient condition of the explicans (anxiety reduction, friendly relations, agnatic confidence), a law statement can easily be framed on this basis.

Word Forms

• explicantia

Related Words

Related dictionary entries include explicandum, implicand, exponence, sublemma, theorem, preexponent.

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