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.
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.
Both strategies try to explicate a methodology that is implicitly used by scientists in a particular discipline.
It is, however, an attempt to explicate that capability, not numbers, is the true currency of military power, shaped by a nation's foreign policy, and bounded by its economy.
So is it possible to know something false after all?[2] In response, it is important to remember that the JTB theory is an attempt to explicate propositional knowledge, not knowledge by acquaintance.
As an attempt to explicate the TLU domain for entrance examinations at the study site, Fig. 1 graphically summarizes the English language demands in mathematics and earth sciences reported by the study participants in relation to general English that students learn through secondary school and university EFL instruction.
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".
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.
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.
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.
Specifically, Habermas eschews the attempt to explicate the relationship between proposition and world metaphysically (e.g., as in correspondence theories).
