explicans – English noun declension

English noun forms of explicans

Noun: explicans
Singularexplicans
Pluralexplicantia

Sample Sentences

  • 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. [1963, Robert Brown, Explanation in Social Science (The International Library of Sociology & Social Reconstruction), London: Routledge & Kegan Paul, published 1968, →ISBN, page 122:]
  • 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. [1968, Richard Bevan Braithwaite, Scientific Explanation: A Study of the Function of Theory, Probability and Law in Science, Cambridge: At the University Press, page 321:]
  • The single pattern that came to have wide acceptance was that the explicandum must follow as a logical consequence of the explicans. [1992, John O’Shaughnessy, “Explanation”, in Explaining Buyer Behavior: Central Concepts and Philosophy of Science Issues, Oxford University Press, →ISBN, page 14:]

Nouns inflected like explicans

definiens, accidens, explanans, explicans, formans,

Etymology

From Latin explicāns. See: Latin Nouns 'explicāns'.