97 The programme evaluation field has urged a theory-driven approach to evaluation, one that, as well as determining whether something works, also seeks to explicate the underlying mechanisms, or how it works.
This undertaking is pursued through an emic (or participant-oriented) approach, in which the analyst seeks to explicate the practices that the participants themselves use to make sense of the activities in which they are involved.
The introduction proceeds from this thought: "Isn't it high time we started thinking about all the crap good writers make?" Bayard's arguing for a new type of criticism, one that, instead of seeking to explicate greatness, explains failure.
The reasoning must be characterized in a way that doesn't presuppose the notions we're seeking to explicate.
Descartes, for example, trying to secure the indubitability of knowledge in an age of skepticism, conceived of mind as ontologically distinct from matter, and Kant retained this conception, seeking to explicate the relationship between mind and world.
He admits that even a descriptive psychology will seek to explicate the causal relationships of life, but that it must differ from explanative psychology by not trying to "derive a comprehensive and transparent cognition of psychological phenomena from a limited number of univocally determined elements" (Dilthey 1924a, 139).
Notoriously, Heidegger was never shy about asserting that he understood a work better than its own author, whether that author was a philosopher (whose essential but "unthought" thoughts Heidegger sought to explicate) or an artist (with an insufficient philosophical understanding of his work).
This poetry doesn't really seek to explicate misery; it's too weak-spirited for that.
Current research in this area seeks to further explicate the myriad health effects of trauma on PLWH and the pathways through which trauma operates.
However, it is worth emphasising that his angle of approach to these fields is through a consideration of the nature of the social sciences which seek to describe and explicate them systematically, particularly history.
The philosophical concepts of creativity (as explicated by Whitehead) and of esse (as explicated dynamically) are useful for any feminist philosophy of religion that seeks to interpret the meaning of "divine reality," "holy mystery," "empowering spirit," and a variety of other metaphors and symbols that abound in feminist theology.
