Literary notes about explicate (AI summary)
The term "explicate" is frequently used in literature as a call for thorough elucidation or interpretation. Authors use it to invite readers into a deeper investigation, whether to uncover the subtle nuances of a voice or the hidden order within natural phenomena ([1], [2], [3]). It functions as both an analytical tool in scientific and philosophical discourse—guiding readers through moral and metaphysical concepts ([4], [5], [6])—and as a mediator in narrative contexts, where characters or narrators seek to clarify mysteries and emotions ([7], [8], [9]). In all its usages, the word implies a systematic unfolding of meaning that connects complex ideas and reveals the underlying structure of thought ([10], [11], [12]).
- There remains yet two other Symptoms of the Voice , which I have undertaken to explicate, viz.
— from The Talking Deaf Man A Method Proposed, Whereby He Who is Born Deaf, May Learn to Speak by Johann Conrad Amman - Now from these Principles I shall endeavour to explicate the several Phænomena of the Barometer , taking them in the same order I laid them down.
— from Miscellanea Curiosa, Vol. 1 Containing a collection of some of the principal phaenomena in nature, accounted for by the greatest philosophers of this age - But as for the pulses themselves, they will by the refraction acquire another propriety, which we shall now endeavour to explicate.
— from MicrographiaSome Physiological Descriptions of Minute Bodies Made by Magnifying Glasses with Observations and Inquiries Thereupon by Robert Hooke - The function of moral instruction is to explicate in clear statements, fit to be grasped by the intellect, the laws of duty which underlie the habits.
— from The Moral Instruction of Children by Felix Adler - Science takes as its province mechanical causes, and leaves formal and final causes to the philosopher to explicate.
— from A Critical History of Greek Philosophy by W. T. (Walter Terence) Stace - Logic shows—in the phrase of Hegel—that each such term or concept is only an attempt to express, explicate, or define the Absolute
— from Prolegomena to the Study of Hegel's Philosophy, and Especially of His Logic by William Wallace - Will you do me the favor to explicate me the expression?”
— from Catholic World, Vol. 24, October, 1876, to March, 1877 A Monthly Magazine of General Literature and Science by Various - Determined to explicate the mystery, he proceeded immediately to the place, found the room mentioned in the bill, and knocked at the door.
— from Alonzo and Melissa; Or, The Unfeeling Father: An American Tale by I. (Isaac) Mitchell - So Peter, stumbling over his confession of love for Miggy, was like the word uttered by destiny to explicate its principle.
— from Friendship Village Love Stories by Zona Gale - A consideration of these arguments may also serve to explicate the contents of an intuition which has remained obscure and
— from Systematic Theology (Volume 1 of 3) by Augustus Hopkins Strong - It is the business of the philosopher to explicate its true meaning.
— from The Works of George Berkeley. Vol. 1 of 4: Philosophical Works, 1705-21 by George Berkeley - The syllogism has the advantage of yielding universal and necessary truth, but it can only explicate and establish knowledge, not increase it.
— from History of Modern PhilosophyFrom Nicolas of Cusa to the Present Time by Richard Falckenberg
