Given this explication of the morally reactive attitudes, Wallace next turns to the Strawsonian question of when excuses or exemptions are appropriate.
We call this the task of explicating, or of giving an explication for, the earlier concept … (1947, 8-9) {§6.7} By the procedure of explication we mean the transformation of an inexact, prescientific concept, the explicandum, into a new exact concept, the explicatum.
Importantly, the explications given can be of two sorts: the formal explications of the logic of science by means of exemplary models of constructed languages, and the more informal explications of the empirical theory of science given by spelling out how certain theoretical desiderata can be attained more or less under practical constraints.
So he created a companion page, www.jaybill.com/whatswrong2, that gives clownish explication and pop-up warnings.
Moreover the inclusion of electron phonon interaction, the bond alternation and dimerization give an explication to the existence of quantum fluctuations, which may be associated to the existence of soliton solutions of the lattice vibration.
The Wizard of Redmond to acolytes, Gates showed off some of Longhorn's aesthetic aspects, such as a new catalog of icons to help organize documents, and gave brief explication of the newer software for file-sharing.
At the very least, accounts of attempts to quit — by the women smokers and by Sartre himself — may be best understood against the background of literary sources in which the sense of 'being' as a smoker is given its fullest explication.
Aiden and Michel provide plenty of examples of how well their system works; a disproportionate amount of the book is given over to lengthy explication of various text-mining exercises that the authors have undertaken.
Given these results, similarity-guided explications would hinder the burgeoning science of free will by precisifying something nonexistent.
These structures in turn manifest capacities whose explication cannot be given in crude materialistic terms; for materialistic terms, as Aristotle understands them, fail to account for the fact that mature members of species cease growing, having realized the structures characteristic of their kind.
Courses of all types typically encourage the close analysis of particular works, explore the range of questions and methods appropriate to the explication of a given period, culture, genre, or medium, and critically examine the methods of the historical study of art.
