A. adj. That admits of or requires explanation; spec. in Logic, of a proposition, that requires restatement in order to be employed in a syllogism.
[a. 1276. Petrus Hispanus vii. 6. 1 in Prantl Geschichte der Logik (1861), III. 67 n, Propositio exponibilis est propositio habens sensum obscurum expositione indigentem].
1788. Reid, Aristotle’s Log., iv. § 7. 101. Such propositions are by some called exponible, by others imperfectly modal.
B. sb. An exponible proposition.
1569. J. Sanford, trans. Agrippa’s Van. Artes, 22 b. Of Consequences, of Indissolubles, of Exponibles.
1653. Urquhart, Rabelais, I. viii. (1887), 36. The exponibles [1664 explonibles] of Master Hautechaussade.
1864. Bowen, Logic, v. 145. The latter [Compound Propositions in which the plurality of Judgments is concealed] are called Exponibles, because they need to be analyzed and explained.
