For some, the "social" in art is best explicated by Boal, for others, by Bourriaud.
On this sort of account a competent user of moral terms might respect the platitudes but not recognize the theory that best explicates those platitudes even if presented with it.
It is never precisely defined in the Essays, and is best explicated by a passage from The Meaning of Truth where James states that radical empiricism consists of a postulate, a statement of fact, and a conclusion.
Lewis, like many philosophers, takes talk of possibility and necessity to be best explicated as disguised quantification over possible worlds (and possible inhabitants thereof), and he was endlessly ingenious at showing how to use the resources provided by a theory of "possibilia" to produce analyses of a host of modal locutions.
But in addition to the conceptual, it is also imperative to think carefully about how best to explicate the experiential sense of being in the world among speakers of very different languages.
Thus Whorf seems to require translators and interpreters of non-Indo-European language materials in particular to think about how best to explicate abstract classifications based on grammatical categories and lexical items not found in one of the languages under study.
Alas, the bulk of the book does little more than prove that artists are rarely best placed to explicate their work.
Because he never spoke candidly about his espionage, because he assumed so many masks, he remains something of a mystery in this book, despite Ms. Carter's best efforts to explicate his life.
The general idea behind completer approaches is that the best way to explicate exclusive cp-laws is to add the missing conditions for a strict implication into the antecedent of the law statement.
Still, the Justices, in their best moments, have explicated these terms in ways that ennobled the lives of millions.
He praises Augustine as the theologian who best understood and explicated this claim, and as authority for the view that "the new papal sin, of deception, is worse than the vivider old sins of material greed, proud ambition or sexual license.
