Sentence examples for way of explication from inspiring English sources

"Nobody is retiring from rock'n'roll the way they said they would," protests Newman, by way of introduction, though the song hardly needs much in the way of explication: "Why do I go on and on and on and on and on," he sings.

Speed is arguably the mark of modularity that requires least in the way of explication.

This is best understood as an attempt to preserve the empirical applicability of the formal languages constructed by way of explication for the contested concepts of scientific methodology, but not as reductivism with regard to some foundational given.

Sellars argues that this gets the order of explication exactly wrong: apparently purely descriptive claims about property instantiation are, in fact, misleading ways of communicating norms of linguistic correctness.

Kurson lays it out in an early chapter entitled "Zero Viz," a masterpiece of explication.

The truth-functional conditional provides another illustration of explication.

But, this process of explication can be extended.

A simple illustration of explication is provided by the definition of ordered pair in set theory.

In fact, Carnap's (1950) most detailed exposition of explication immediately precedes his explication of several core concepts of formal epistemology, including degree of confirmation and logical probability.

Second, we diagnose a deficiency in Carnap's original account of explication, and show how it can be fixed.

I guess without even noticing it I'd overturned the default situation (for me and some of my characters) of brandishing these things as a kind of exoskeleton or explication of self, one better able to articulate one's inner states than anything you might produce by way of behavior or language.