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Existential import a commitment to the existence of something implied by a...

Existential instantiation a rule of inference admissible in classical quantification theory. It...

Existential polarity See POLARITY.

Existential proposition See EXISTENTIAL IMPORT.

Existential quantifier See FORMAL LOGIC.

Existentialism a philosophical and literary movement that came to prominence in...

Existenz philosophy See JASPERS.

Expected return See SAINT PETERSBURG PARADOX.

Expected utility See NEWCOMB 's PARADOX, SAINT. PETERSBURG PARADO.

Experientialism See EVIDENTIALISM.

Experimentum crusis See CRUCIAL EXPERIMENT.

Explaining reason See REASONS FOR ACTION, REA -. SONS FOR BELIE.

Explanandum See EXPLANATION.

Explanans See EXPLANATION.

Explanation an act of making something intelligible or understandable, as when...

Explanation, covering law See COVERING LAW. MODE.

Explanation, deductive See COVERING LAW MODEL.

Explanation, inductive See COVERING LAW MODEL.

Explanation, purposive See PHILOSOPHY OF MIND.

Explanation, subsumption theory of See COVERING. LAW MODE.

Explanation, teleological See TELEOLOGY.

Explanatory emergence See METHODOLOGICAL. HOLIS.

Explanatory reductionism See METHODOLOGICAL. HOLIS.

Explicit definition See BETH 's DEFINABILITY THEO -. REM , DEFINITIO. exponible....

Exportation (1) In classical logic, the principle that (A 8 B)...

Expressibility logicism See LOGICISM.

Expression theory of art a theory that defines art as the expression of feelings...

Expressionism See EXPRESSION THEORY OF ART.

Expressive completeness See COMPLETENESS.

Expressive meaning See MEANING.