Examplification

The word 'example' has two common uses that are logical inverses of each other. In one sense, an 'example' is an instance of something general. But, in the other, in 'setting an example', some specific course of action is projected as general. The latter process can be called 'Examplification'. Examplification is a fundamental component of the Formaterial concept of the Individual--it characterizes Exposition, i. e. the efferential dimension of Conduct. It is the Individual's self-projection into overtness, and, thereby, the source of public emanation. Examplification is entailed in the process of the universalization of a maxim that is a phase of Kant's Practical Principle, but which the standard analysis of the latter tends to gloss over in its focus on the resultant universality. Also in Kantian terms, Examplification is the dynamic efficacious appearing that Kantianism reifies as Appearance, and, similarly, it is the generation of Sartre's Being-for-Others that precedes what is treated primarily as an inert phenomenon. Otherwise, the Examplery aspect of Conduct seems to have received little attention, despite its relevance to, e. g. leadership qualities. Regardless, the transition from private to public, that is a phase of every Individual action, effects the transition from singular to general that contrasts Examplification to exemplification.