Explicitation
noun ·Rare ·Advanced level
Definitions
- 1 The process or fact of becoming explicit or of causing to be explicit; that which makes something explicit. nonstandard, possibly, rare
"[N]ot only are the two factors of reality [i.e., objective and subjective] exposures or explicitations of each other, each being always the other's inside made outside, implicit made explicit, but also in our thought of them as incidents of one process or activity it can certainly be no more true that they influence each other or act causally on each other or "interact," than that they are constantly realizing each other."
Example
More examples"[N]ot only are the two factors of reality [i.e., objective and subjective] exposures or explicitations of each other, each being always the other's inside made outside, implicit made explicit, but also in our thought of them as incidents of one process or activity it can certainly be no more true that they influence each other or act causally on each other or "interact," than that they are constantly realizing each other."
Etymology
From explicit + -ation.
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