instantiate

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And so the concreta of history, viewed in an epistemic perspective, can in fact manage to transcend their space-time settings to instantiate general patterns.

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  1. transitive verb To represent (an abstract concept) by a concrete or tangible example: "Two apples ... both instantiate the single universal redness” (J. Holloway).

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  • And so the concreta of history, viewed in an epistemic perspective, can in fact manage to transcend their space-time settings to instantiate general patterns. —  Process Philosophy
  • Mally would say the triangle does not instantiate the property of being triangular. —  Ernst Mally
  • So they may allow that there is a kind K that veridical perceptions and hallucinations can both instantiate (e.g., where a mental event is of kind K just in case it is introspectively indiscriminible from a veridical perception of an F). —  Petty Injuries
  • Inputs from the keyboard cause the computer, depending on the programs it is running and its internal state, to instantiate or —  Belief
 

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  1. Latin īnstantia, example; see instance + -ate1.
 

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