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Wright is aware of the difficulties in characterizing sortals which we will explore below, but remarks that "… whether or not it is ultimately rigorously explicable, the intuitive notion of a sortal concept is clear enough for our immediate purpose." (

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  1. adjective Possible to explain: explicable phenomena; explicable behavior.

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  • Not altogether explicable is this extreme self-abnegation. —  Charles the Bold
  • Amidships, the burly figure of Furl Hawken steered the airship from the pilot box. —  Ilse Witch
  • A friend explains himself. the earth is explicable -- from her we came, and we must return to her. —  Howards End
  • It had all been very pleasant, but perhaps a little too explicable, a little too routine. —  So long, and thanks for all the fish
  • Wright is aware of the difficulties in characterizing sortals which we will explore below, but remarks that "… whether or not it is ultimately rigorously explicable, the intuitive notion of a sortal concept is clear enough for our immediate purpose." ( —  Sortals
 

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  1. = French explicable = Spanish explicable = Portuguese explicavel = Italian esplicabile, from Latin explicabilis, from explicare, unfold, explicate: see explicate.
 

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/ˈɛksplɪkəbl/
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