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exponible, a. and n.|ɛkˈspəʊnɪb(ə)l|
[ad. med.L. expōnibilis, f. expōnĕre: see expone and -ble.]
A. adj. That admits of or requires explanation; spec. in Logic, of a proposition, that requires restatement in order to be employed in a syllogism.
[a1276Petrus Hispanus vii. 6. 1 in Prantl Geschichte der Logik (1861) III. 67 n, Propositio exponibilis est propositio habens sensum obscurum expositione indigentem.] 1788Reid Aristotle's Log. iv. §7. 101 Such propositions are by some called exponible, by others imperfectly modal.
B. n. An exponible proposition.
1569J. Sandford tr. Agrippa's Van. Artes 22 b, Of Consequences, of Indissolubles, of Exponibles. 1653Urquhart Rabelais i. viii, The exponibles of Master Hautechaussade. 1864Bowen Logic v. 145 The latter [Compound Propositions in which the plurality of Judgments is concealed] are called Exponibles, because they need to be analyzed and explained. |