An object, or a term denoting an object, that satisfies the predicate asserted by an existential quantification. In a natural deduction use of the existential quantifier elimination rule, a fresh eigenvariable represents an otherwise unspecified witness inside a subproof. The eigenvariable condition prevents it from occurring freely in the exported conclusion or the other undischarged assumptions; violating this restriction is witness escape.
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