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"As I had expressed before, as Iran and the US don't have a direct link, when our friends travel to Iran, the usually explicate their takes on the positions of US officials and their tendencies".
Plot is just a way to explicate character".Mr Lehane wears the comparisons with Chandler and Hammett lightly.
Relevance serves to explicate unpredictability.
To explicate the view further, consider each of these three features in turn.
This article will explicate the representation of inductive inferences in terms of probability.
Thus a detailed study of works of literature and their represented objects could serve to explicate the purely intentional mode of being, with a view to contrasting this with the real mode of being and ultimately demonstrating that it is impossible to reduce the 'real world' to the status of a purely intentional creation.
We can explicate Nishida's first concern, with the ontology of consciousness, in the following way: If the basic form of consciousness did not have the reflexivity of self-awareness, then the "consciousness" of objects would be blind, as it were, like a mechanical or neurological reaction to stimuli with no awareness whatsoever, and no way to account for awareness.
While it is true that it involves the rejection of absolute space as Newton conceived it, and with it the need to explicate the nature of an enduring space, the postulation of Galilean spacetime poses the parallel question of the nature of spacetime.
One can either keep the thermodynamic theory in its traditional form and carefully explicate the relationship its principles bear to the newer probabilistic conclusions, or one can, as has been done in deeply interesting ways, generate a new "statistical thermodynamics" that imports into the older theory probabilistic structure.
The whole point of the theory of logical probability is to explicate ampliative inference, although given the apparent arbitrariness in the choice of language and in the setting of λ — thus, in the choice of confirmation function — one may wonder how well it achieves this.
We might try to clarify the luck condition as involving a distinctive notion of epistemic luck but unless we were able to explicate that notion in effect, to distinguish between the two kinds of luck mentioned above without recourse to knowledge, it is not clear that the ensuing analysis of knowledge could be both informative and noncircular.
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The primary grammatical function of "explicate" is as a verb , used transitively to describe the act of explaining something in detail or analyzing it thoroughly. Ludwig confirms that "explicate" is a correct and usable word in written English.
Expression frequency: Very common
