We then participated in a series of discussions in order to explicate theories and synthesize ideas.
What is important for understanding Auriol's conceptualism, then, is explicating his theory of intellectual cognition: determining the process by which the intellect fabricates these universal concepts, determining what these universal concepts are, and what relation they have to really existing singulars in the world.
In order to make comprehensive evaluations possible, explicating the theory of a programme is helpful and often recommended.
This paper explicates two theories that offer contradictory answers to this question.
Among Pamuk's other works are İstanbul: hatıralar ve şehir (2004; Istanbul: Memories and the City, also published as Istanbul: Memories of a City), a partly fictionalized memoir, and The Naive and Sentimental Novelist (2010), in which he explicated his theories on the novel as a literary form.
The main purpose of this move is to "explicate the theories on which the proposed research is based" (Yang 2001, 86).
To inform a more appropriate application of the different measures currently used in quantifying health inequities, this article explicates common theories underlying the definition of health inequities and uses this understanding to show the utility and limitations of these different measures.
There are no definitive claims in sacred texts, no discoveries in medical research, and no established ethical theories explicating why women's breasts proffer greater potential for moral corruptibility than men's breasts.
There are also new approaches in the current debate that cannot easily be classified: Mitchell (1997, 2002a,b; 2008, 2009), Sober 1997, Steel (2007, chapter 6) and Reiss (2008) attempt to explicate a theory of laws that fits scientific practice in biology, the social sciences and generalization describing complex systems.
Our analysis demonstrates how in-depth qualitative research can usefully extend and explicate existing theory, allowing better understanding of respondents' perspectives and beliefs, and allowing additional dimensions not incorporated in standard quantitative assessment of illness representations to emerge from the data.
Explicating the relationship between theory, method, and interpretation, The Art of Contact destabilizes categories such as orientalism and Hellenism and offers fresh perspectives on Greek and Phoenician art history.
