Literary notes about explication (AI summary)
The term "explication" is used in literature to denote a careful, systematic examination of a subject, breaking it down into its fundamental components to reveal underlying meanings or principles. In philosophical works, such as those by Hume and Locke, it appears in contexts that clarify abstract ideas or elucidate the principles behind natural phenomena ([1], [2], [3]). The word is also mobilized in more literary or artistic discussions where it helps explain character traits or metaphorical language, as seen in discussions of moral narratives and poetic expressions ([4], [5], [6]). Additionally, it is employed in scientific debates to interpret experimental observations or technical arguments, making the complex accessible to broader audiences ([7], [8], [9]). Overall, its use across various texts emphasizes the importance of detailed analysis in reaching a deeper understanding of both thought and expression ([10], [11]).
- But if the foregoing explication of the matter be received, this must be absolutely impracticable.
— from An Enquiry Concerning Human Understanding by David Hume - Method followed in this explication of Faculties.
— from An Essay Concerning Humane Understanding, Volume 1 by John Locke - All which relations, how they are confined to, and terminate in ideas derived from sensation or reflection, is too obvious to need any explication.
— from An Essay Concerning Humane Understanding, Volume 1 by John Locke - She and the squire had a controversy upon the explication of the word gentleman, she describing my father's appearance and manners to the life.
— from Complete Project Gutenberg Works of George Meredith by George Meredith - But in this moral explication of the war, and of all that the war involves, two vastly different types of character persist.
— from Abraham Lincoln's Cardinal Traits;A Study in Ethics, with an Epilogue Addressed to Theologians by Clark S. (Clark Smith) Beardslee - The Life of Reason finds there its classic explication.
— from The Life of Reason: The Phases of Human Progress by George Santayana - It would be the first major explication of stem cell technology for general readers.
— from Syndrome by Thomas Hoover - The same Explication Des-Cartes hath pursued in his Meteors, and mended that of the exterior Bow.
— from Opticks : by Isaac Newton - Explication of the laws of reflection and refraction.
— from The Declaration of Independence of the United States of America by Thomas Jefferson - The phaenomenon may be real, though my explication be chimerical.
— from A Treatise of Human Nature by David Hume - To remove this difficulty we must have recourse to the foregoing explication of abstract ideas.
— from A Treatise of Human Nature by David Hume
