Two broad strategies have emerged in response to this challenge: attempts to quantify approximate truth by formally defining the concept and the related notion of relative approximate truth; and attempts to explicate the concept informally.
He apologizes for the obscurity of the concept, and attempts to explicate its role by means of a series of analogies: it is variously compared to a lump of gold (50a4 b5), a mother that together with a father produces offspring (50d2 4, 51a4 5), a plastic, impressionable stuff (50c2 6, e7 51a1), and an ointment that serves as a neutral base for various fragrances (50e5 8).
Dummett was known chiefly for his defense of antirealism (see realism) and his attempt to explicate sentence meaning in terms of "assertibility conditions" rather than truth conditions.
There are also new approaches in the current debate that cannot easily be classified: Mitchell (1997, 2002a,b; 2008, 2009), Sober 1997, Steel (2007, chapter 6) and Reiss (2008) attempt to explicate a theory of laws that fits scientific practice in biology, the social sciences and generalization describing complex systems.
It is thus within this context of both intensifying globalization and efforts to critique, resist, and mobilize against it that I will attempt to explicate and begin to theorize the connections between Native American literature and emergent international movement(s) for social and ecological justice.
Smart chamber opera -- sometimes almost too smart -- is the specialty of the Nine Circles Chamber Theater which, since its founding a few years ago, has created operas that attempt to explicate Paul Celan and deconstruct Camille Saint-Saëns.
While the raters praised the Japanese speeches for managing to pick out most, if not all, of the salient points in the cross-examinations and for at least attempting to refute their opponents' cross-examination, they noted that the English speeches contained barely any attempt to explicate a clear and logical argument.
Specifically, Habermas eschews the attempt to explicate the relationship between proposition and world metaphysically (e.g., as in correspondence theories).
The most common factor in such theories is the attempt to explicate the nature of mind and consciousness in terms of their ability to directly or indirectly modify behaviour, but there are versions of materialism that try to tie the mental to the physical without explicitly explaining the mental in terms of its behaviour-modifying role.
A forest of talking heads and pointing fingers, "The Empire in Africa" is a noble but failed attempt to explicate the tragedy of the 11-year civil war in Sierra Leone.
