Explication
[,ekspli'keiʃən,,ekspli:kɑ:'sjuŋ]
Definition
(noun.) a detailed explanation of the meaning of something.
(noun.) the act of making clear or removing obscurity from the meaning of a word or symbol or expression etc..
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Definition
(n.) The act of opening, unfolding, or explaining; explanation; exposition; interpretation.
(n.) The sense given by an expositor.
Typist: Sean
Synonyms and Synonymous
n. Interpretation, explanation, exposition, illustration.
Typed by Anton
Synonyms and Antonyms
[See EXPLANATION]
Editor: Natasha
Examples
- We need no other explication of that esteem, which attends such of the natural virtues, as have a tendency to the public good. David Hume. A Treatise of Human Nature.
- I believe the most general and most popular explication of this matter, is to say [See Mr. Locke, chapter of power. David Hume. A Treatise of Human Nature.
- To remove this difficulty we must have recourse to the foregoing explication of abstract ideas. David Hume. A Treatise of Human Nature.
- But to be convinced that this explication is more popular than philosophical, we need but reflect on two very obvious principles. David Hume. A Treatise of Human Nature.
- The only explication, then, we can give of this phaenomenon is derived from that principle of a parallel direction above-mentioned. David Hume. A Treatise of Human Nature.
- The phaenomenon may be real, though my explication be chimerical. David Hume. A Treatise of Human Nature.
- All this I have observed, in order to confirm by analogy, my explication of our judgments concerning cause and effect. David Hume. A Treatise of Human Nature.
- This clearly appears from the precedent explication of necessity. David Hume. A Treatise of Human Nature.
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