Carnap's empiricist criterion of significance is precisely this: an explication, a proposal for how empiricists may wish to speak.
The main contribution of this article is an explication of a design research methodology and a theoretical framework for research in cadastral information, cadastral systems and the units of property rights reflected in these systems.
Topics can veer from his self-generating art installations via "cellular automata", an explication of a Danish town's waterworks and haircuts, "a little artwork that everyone carries around on their head".
For those of us who love his work, such a book promises an explication of the hints he's been dropping in his original fiction for years.
Lyell's second volume is both an explication, and a refutation, of Lamarck's theory of transmutation.
The more theorems an explication of a logical concept helps produce, the more fruitful it presumably is.
Ms. Merwin doesn't seem to have decided whether she is creating a documentary about Mr. Swift, an explication of the history of breaking or a demonstration of skill and fun.
At the same time, arguably, instrumentalism about objectivity is more of a research program than an explication of the concept.
Of his many books, the best known is "Boats With an Open Mind" (1994), an explication of 75 different boat designs, written in precise, personal prose.
We call this the task of explicating, or of giving an explication for, the earlier concept … (1947, 8-9) {§6.7} By the procedure of explication we mean the transformation of an inexact, prescientific concept, the explicandum, into a new exact concept, the explicatum.
Start out with an explication chart, which is a T-chart with the left side labeled "Literally" (it denotes) and the right side labeled "Figuratively" (it connotes) Get your poem out.
