| 释义 |
ˈsubstitutable, a.
[f. substitute v. + -able.]
Capable of being substituted.
1805W. Taylor in Ann. Rev. III. 312 It will always bear a regular proportion to that of other substitutable food. c1820Bentham Language Wks. 1843 VIII. 314 Substitute the singular to the plural number when substitutable without impropriety! 1905W. James Meaning of Truth (1909) v. 132 Reality..is always defined as a terminus within the general possibilities of experience; and what knows it is defined as an experience that ‘represents’ it, in the sense of being substitutable for it in our thinking. 1941Mind L. 167 Both the original word and all signs substitutable for it stand independently for universals. 1961R. Brain Speech Disorders v. 57 Even a phoneme is abstract, since it stands for and represents an indefinite variety of mutally substitutable phones. 1980A. Kenny Aquinas ii. 58 It is tantamount to a predicate variable for which no predicate is substitutable.
Hence substitutaˈbility.
1907W. James Meaning of Truth (1909) vii. 175 The relations..which we epistemologists study, relations of adaptation, of substitutability, of instrumentality, of reference and of truth. 1922tr. Wittgenstein's Tractatus Logico-Philosophicus 171 Equations express the substitutability of two expressions. 1957A. C. L. Day Outl. Monetary Econ. xxxi. 395 There may also be a high or low degree of substitutability in consumption in each country. 1979Nat. Westminster Bank Q. Rev. Nov. 33 Each occupation should be compared with a group of workers where there is some close, short-run substitutability i.e. where there is a fair degree of movement between the two labour markets. |