Sentence examples for attempts to explicate from inspiring English sources

If one understands philosophy as the discipline that attempts to explicate the totality of being, the difference between philosophy and theology becomes apparent.

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.

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

Moreover, the evaluative attitudes used by the theory must not already involve the value concept it attempts to explicate, on pain of circularity.

1. Copp 2003 gives a useful survey of attempts to explicate the "natural" in talk of natural properties and makes an intriguing nonstandard proposal.

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.

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.

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".

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.

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.

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