This model is related to Wesley Salmon's (1971) account of statistical explanation, which uses the notion of screening off to explicate the idea of one property being statistically more relevant (and thus more explanatory) than another one.
To explicate the idea of the social contract we analyze contractual approaches into five variables: (1) the nature of the contractual act; (2) the parties to the act; (3) what the parties are agreeing to; (4) the reasoning that leads to the agreement; (5) what the agreement is supposed to show.
His use of Greek philosophy, particularly that of Plato, to explicate the ideas of the Torah and his formulation of the Logos (Word, or Divine Reason) as an intermediary between God and the world helped lay the foundations of Neoplatonism, gnosticism, and the philosophical outlook of the early Church Fathers.
This article explicates the idea of public justification in terms of a Public Justification Principle (PJP) that provides a classificatory system for these competing conceptions.
However, representational theories of awareness face powerful objections, the perspectivalist must either buy into such a theory despite its liabilities, or find some other way of explicating the idea of an introspective or first-person perspective without appealing to higher-order representation.
How was one now to explicate the idea that there can be non-analytic framework propositions (whose negations are not self-contradictory)?
This is why empirical science is needed to see necessary truths: because, as we saw above, empirical science is needed in order to explicate the Ideas.
The way that Maxwell explicates the idea that the structure of the theory exhausts the cognitive content of its theoretical terms, is to consider the Ramsey sentence of the theory (Ramsey 1929).
Andre Ariew has published an influential series of papers (1996 19999; 2006) arguing that the concept of an innate trait can be explicated using the idea of 'developmental canalization'.
Several philosophers and scientists have introduced senses of 'genetic information' based on these causal relationships in order to explicate the intuitive idea that genes carry information about phenotypes.
Despite the great success of Weierstrass, Dedekind and Cantor in constructing the continuum from arithmetical materials, a number of thinkers of the late 19th and early 20th centuries remained opposed, in varying degrees, to the idea of explicating the continuum concept entirely in discrete terms.
