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inˈstantial, a.
[f. L. instāntia instance n. + -al1.]
Of or pertaining to an instance or instances; furnishing an instance. Spec. instantial premiss (see quot. 1933). Hence instantiˈality, the state of being instantial.
1647M. Hudson Div. Right Govt. ii. vi. 110 The Arguments..are partly Instantial, partly Rational. The Instances of Scripture are of two sorts. 1851T. Parker Wks. (Eng. ed.) VII. 260 A mighty multitude, an instantial, poor, ill-born..and ill-minded too. a1860― Serm. (Cent.), Instantial cases of this great law of attraction. 1921W. E. Johnson Logic I. x. 160 This entirely distinct and peculiar use of the term ‘existential’ has given rise to endless confusion; and..the term should be entirely discarded and replaced by some such term as instantial, or, more accurately, indeterminately instantial. 1922― Logic II. x. 210 The conclusion is a generalisation of a certain premiss or set of premisses which..may be spoken of as ‘the instantial premiss’. 1933C. A. Mace Princ. Logic xii. 243 Induction may be defined as a form of inference in which, given instantial premisses (i.e. premisses concerning ‘instances’ or particular cases), we draw a conclusion involving some measure of generalization of these premisses. 1961E. Nagel Struct. of Sci. iii. 31 The above premises..contain a number of singular or instantial statements. 1966J. Ellis in C. E. Bazell In Memory of J. R. Firth 81 Contextual meaning is either potential or instantial (or, less unambiguously, ‘potential’ or ‘actual’). Ibid., Between these extremes we might recognize a cline of potentiality/instantiality. |