Sentence examples for attempting to explicate from inspiring English sources

Danchev does begin to hyperventilate a little towards the end, when attempting to explicate the flights of birds in Braque's late paintings.

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

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

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.

This contributed to the rise of subjectivism among those attempting to explicate the concept of confirmation in probabilistic terms, as reflected in the present status of subjective Bayesianism as 'orthodox' Bayesianism.

On the other hand, the quantitative concept is employed in making numerical judgements about how much support a hypothesis derives from a given piece of evidence (e.g,. 'Hypothesis H is confirmed by evidence E to degree R').[19] Formal theories attempting to explicate each of these notions were developed.

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.

What all these different Hitlers represent are different ways of looking at evil, at free will, at personal responsibility and at the workings of history, and in "Explaining Hitler, Mr. Rosenbaumm not only re-examines a myriad of scholarly writings on the Nazi leader, but also attempts to explicate the explanations.

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

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.