To resolve a philosophical problem, one should exhibit the generic character of the concepts involved in it, rather than attempting to give a perfect definition or explication of these concepts..
Philosophically reflective historians ask critical questions about the concepts and assumptions that are often brought into historical thinking, and they attempt to provide more adequate explication of these concepts given their own encounters with the challenges of historical research and historical explanation.
Next, Weyl points out that what has been provided so far is merely an explication of the concepts metric, length connection and symmetric linear connection.
Section 5 defuses the worry, extends the relevance of x-phi assisted explication to concepts with normative content, and shows how explication can undergird methodology in formal epistemology.
Whewell referred to this "unfolding" of ideas and conceptions as the "explication of conceptions".
It has been observed that agreement on the definitive concept is lacking; it is worth paying considerable attention to the explication of the concept with further research orientation.
Philosophers of biology disagree about an adequate explication of the concept of function.
Samuels has suggested that this is the best explication of the concept of innateness in contemporary neo-nativist psychology.
At the same time, arguably, instrumentalism about objectivity is more of a research program than an explication of the concept.
But his use of the term and his explication of the concept did not fully come together, it appears, until Two Concepts of Liberty (1958; even then, his articulation of pluralism is absent from the first draft of the essay).
Medieval theories of the transcendentals present an explication of the concept of 'being' (ens) in terms of the so-called 'most common notions' (communissima), such as 'one' (unum), 'true' (verum), and 'good' (bonum), and explain the inner relations and order between these concepts.
