Meaning of explicans | Babel Free

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The underlying meaning of an explicandum.

Examples

“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.”

“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.”

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

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