The phrase "if only implicitly" is correct and can be used in written English.
It typically means that something is hinted at or suggested without being stated directly. Example: While the company's mission statement did not mention sustainability, their choice to use environmentally-friendly materials in their products hinted at a commitment to eco-friendliness, if only implicitly.
In fact, as our tax system has evolved over many years, legislators have come to appreciate the logic of taxing consumption, if only implicitly.
The implications of his presentation for Europe are worrying, to say the least.In New Keynesian models, the dominant work horse of macro analysis in academia and central banks alike, more wage flexibility can neither magically fix an unemployment problem in a recession, as is often, if only implicitly, argued; nor does it lead to a downward spiral into an economic abyss.
Something like this argument may be what Hume had in mind, if only implicitly.
Yet there is a sense in which Wittgenstein extends the discussion, if only implicitly.
Many dimensions of applied ethics appear to incorporate such appeals to obligatory beneficence, even if only implicitly.
And, in fact, the major religious traditions have (if only implicitly) construed the object of their devotion in precisely these terms.
In other words, keeping such order allowed us to avoid the occurrence of carryover effects which might have favored the possibility that participants deliberately activated arithmetic knowledge also when performing number matching, i.e., a task in which arithmetic knowledge should be accessed, if any, only implicitly as it is not relevant to task requirements.
This signal is only implicitly declared if the guard expression is present.
Often we express our willingness to act together only implicitly: as I might if I just held out my hand to you and gestured toward the dance floor.
The strong modal fictionalist's analysis will be circular if he has to appeal to something like implication (or related modal notions) to spell out what claims are represented as true by the fiction, as it seems he must if the bulk of the claims are to be represented only implicitly.
But what about merely irrelevant statements, or only implicitly misleading ones?
