The first-order axiom scheme corresponding to the introduction rule for the existential quantifier:
where is some term. Also called existential generalization. In free logic, the principle is challenged on the basis of apparently true statements of the form that do not appear to entail that , e.g., ‘Pegasus is a horse with wings’ does not appear to entail ‘there exists a horse with wings’. The contrapositive of the law of particularization is the law of specification.