单词 | explicandum |
释义 | explicandumn. Philosophy. The fact, thing, or expression to be explained or explicated. Cf. explicans n., explanandum n. ΚΠ 1867 J. S. Mill Lett. (1910) II. 92 In the higher departments he leaves everything unexplained, or smuggles the explicandum into its own explanation. 1899 Mind 8 383 The explicandum of philosophy is the world of ordinary common sense in its widest application. 1948 H. H. Joachim Logical Stud. i. 30 The explicandum..since it is a whole must in some sense consist of parts. 1953 C. E. Bazell Ling. Form 106 The explanation is not based on any facts known independently of the explicandum. 1966 J. J. Katz Philos. Lang. iii. 54 Pragmatical concepts which could serve as explicanda. 2010 New Scientist 6 Mar. 26/3 For them, religion was the great explicandum: how, they wondered, could so many people believe in something so absurd? This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, June 2016; most recently modified version published online March 2022). < n.1867 |
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