A fuller discussion of explication is provided in the first chapter of Logical Foundations of Probability (1950 [Quotation]), where Carnap offers criteria of adequacy for explication, and gives as his main example the concept of temperature as explicating the vaguer concept of warmth.
Explicating meaning in terms of aboutness, or aboutness in terms of meaning, or either in terms of some still further semantic notion, does not go as far as is commonly desired by those who develop causal theories of mental content.
Thus, three possible models for explicating the epistemological role of 'styles' in mathematics have been considered.
One puzzle is whether there is, in fact, a coherent and stable way of explicating the notion of reasonable acceptability or justification (Raz 1990, 46).
The three questions focus respectively on describing the features of consciousness, explaining its underlying basis or cause, and explicating its role or value.
The remainder of this article adopts the second interpretation, explicating Wittgenstein's later Philosophy of Mathematics as largely continuous with his intermediate views, except for the important introduction of an extra-mathematical application criterion.
But we would then be explicating the notion of a logical constant in terms of an obscure primitive notion of logical necessity which we could not, on pain of circularity, explicate by reference to logical constants.
Hegel returns to Aristotle's understanding of (nuclear) marriage as the foundation of a healthy state, while explicating its contribution in terms of spousal love.
As a rhapsode Ion travels from one Greek city to another reciting and then explicating episodes from Homer.
Explicating this will carry us far from the power-based notions with which classical positivism hoped to work.
Chisholm starts by explicating some of Brentano's idiosyncratic metaphysical views.
