ramifiableとは 意味・読み方・使い方

形容詞

ramifiable

1. (mathematics) Capable of being subdivided into branches.
   • 1998, Travaux de Mathématiques - Issue 2:

     One cannot prove in Z F C that "δ_D and cf(D) are ramifiable cardinals implies that D is weakly ramifiable".

   • 2002, Reports on Mathematical Logic - Issues 36-40, page 25:

     We say that D is Θ-ramifiable if for each tree T on D, there is a branch h of T (we say that T has a branch).

2. Capable of spreading into multiple fields or categories.
   • 1994, Herman Parret, Peirce and Value Theory: On Peircian Ethics and Aesthetics, ISBN 1556193408, page 109:

     Judgments are thus ramified and ramifiable. Adopting Peircean terminology, the artwork is indefinitely translatable into interpretants of great variety.

   • 1999, Meir Sternberg, Hebrews between Cultures: Group Portraits and National Literature, ISBN 0253113288:

     To this the Bible offers an instructive counterexample, since keeping the difference flexible and ramifiable is exactly part of its ideopoetic business.

   • 1999, John Ryder, Interpreting America, ISBN 0826513344:

     Whether or not Karimsky's judgment of the transcendentalist world view as an "irrationalization" is justified, its conception of nature as dynamic, mutable, and incomplete prefigures a theme that is to run through much of American philosophy, from James's open universe and Dewey's rejection of the fixed and final in nature, to Justus Buchler's contemporary ordinal conception of the indefinitely ramifiable character of nature's complexes and his rejection of a final "Order" of nature.

   • 2015, Peter Hare, ‎Joseph Palencik, ‎& Douglas Anderson, Pragmatism with Purpose: Selected Writings, ISBN 0823264327, page 180:

     Another point of considerable relevance here is that complexes are indefinitely ramifiable, which is to say they are amenable to indefinite inquiry and analysis.