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).
Gregg Barson's 2011 documentary "Method to the Madness of Jerry Lewis" (YouTube, Starz) features, of course, Eddie Murphy as one of the comedic artists who pay tribute to, and attempt to explicate, Lewis's genius it even features a clip from "Norbit".
Medieval Jewish neoplatonism is an ill-defined term, and all attempts to explicate Ibn Ezra's "neoplatonism" are problematic, forcing scholars to note numerous points of agreement between Ibn Ezra and the Aristotelians which, in turn, cannot be divorced from the neoplatonic interpretations informing Islamic Aristotelianism in general.
Her efforts to explore the metaphorical connection between the notions of "home" and "motherhood" (i.e. the house as womb, as a refuge of safety and comfort) feel vague and pretentious, as do her attempts to explicate the metaphor of the "house as body" or container for the soul.
The concept of nature is notorious for its complexity, and for this reason most attempts to explicate the meaning of the term end up with a confusing catalog of its many, seemingly disjointed, meanings.
Soon after this, however, Rorty comes to doubt the point of any theory of truth, and, following Davidson's lead explicitly rejects all attempts to explicate the notion of truth in terms of other concepts.
There have been some attempts to explicate this relationship between disease-specific funding and health system performance.
1. Copp 2003 gives a useful survey of attempts to explicate the "natural" in talk of natural properties and makes an intriguing nonstandard proposal.
If one understands philosophy as the discipline that attempts to explicate the totality of being, the difference between philosophy and theology becomes apparent.
First, it attempts to explicate the level of concerns over CC.
