Kûkai was the first however to provide the idea with a systematic explication in his Sokushinjôbutsugi, which has been regarded by commentators as the most important of his philosophical expositions.
(EJ, §22, 105) {§5.8} The process of explication in its originality is that in which an object given at first hand is brought to explicit intuition.
Carnap gives as examples Frege's and Russell's logicist explication of number terms such as 'two'—"the term 'two' in the not quite exact meaning in which it is used in everyday life and in applied mathematics"—and their different explications of definite descriptions (1947, 8).
The way in which I-languages are 'intensional' for Chomsky needs a little explication.
Mr. Scorsese's shot-by-shot explication of "A Woman of Paris" -- the critically beloved, widely ignored 1923 melodrama in which Chaplin appeared only in a fleeting cameo -- is like a mini-seminar in film appreciation.
The works of the great legal authors of this time, which became classics, were offered by the law professor with much interpretation and explication very similar to the way in which grammarians offered literature.
In continuity with scientific practice, Carnap considered explications valuable to the extent they enhanced what he called 'fruitfulness.' For empirical concepts, fruitfulness was measured in the same underlying currency in which science measures epistemic success: well-confirmed generalizations.
Tiny bursts of action are separated by wide expanses of conversation — veritable kingdoms of explication during which medieval spreadsheets of plot, history, geography and family lineage are explained in the mellow tones of stage-trained European actors.
The argument here contains two terms that call for explication, both of which relate to the notion of confirmation holism in the philosophy of science.
Instead one can formulate a number of totally different explications, all of which have their merits and limits.
