Sentence examples for attempted to explicate from inspiring English sources

Less formally and perhaps more typically, realists have attempted to explicate approximate truth in qualitative terms.

Philosophers have attempted to explicate the meaning of ceteris paribus clauses in different ways.

However, Le Grand attempted to explicate further than did Descartes the nature of the mind-body union.

Lucretius, in his On the Nature of Things, attempted to explicate science in an epic poem.

The specific problem came when Gilbert's writings attempted to explicate the relationship between God and his "divinity", which led to his opponents claiming that Gilbert was attempting to create two Gods, rather than just one.

Even though complete self-understanding is not possible [ 23], we have attempted to explicate our self-understanding to give the reader an understanding of our influence on the research.

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.

First, it attempts to explicate the level of concerns over CC.

Hempel (1945) took the lead in attempting to explicate the qualitative concept while Carnap (1950 , 1952 concentrated on the quantitative concept.

Before attempting to explicate and evaluate Quine's criterion of ontological commitment, it is important to specify more carefully the relata.

By 1945 Carnap also distinguished the two approaches described here, insisting that they were not competitors but were attempting to explicate two different concepts of probability.