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  • noun logic That which is to be explained or explicated

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  • noun (logic) a statement of something (a fact or thing or expression) to be explained

Etymologies

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From Latin explico

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Examples

  • Such elucidation would only be plausible if we understood the explicans more clearly than the explicandum.

    Emotion de Sousa, Ronald 2007

  • 'Hoc facile est ad explicandum,' Nicolaus inquit, 'quod longa aetas et ante acta vita me docuit.

    Tacitus and Bracciolini The Annals Forged in the XVth Century John Wilson Ross 1852

  • One theorist's Just One Of Those Things is another's challenging explicandum.

    languagehat.com: CLUNKY COMPOUNDS. 2005

  • Aurum nempe omnibus aliis precipitatur. metallis, excepto forfe Platino, quod ita explicandum exiftimo.

    Torberni Bergman, ... sciagraphia regni mineralis: secundum principia proxima digesti Torbern Bergman 1783

  • Ejusdem Commentarium in Timaeum, vel potius in prooemium Timaei, faepc laudat Proclus in eum dialogum, Non facile pu - tem, ullum interpretem tantis ingenii & doarinae pracfidiis ad fcriptorem aliquem explicandum, quan - tis Longinui ad Platonem, accesfisfe.

    Bibliotheca critica 1779

  • Quod generali conceptu enuntiatum paulo fufius explicandum eft; vt, oftenfo eo quod primùm à Vieta in inftituto fuo promouendo actum eft, quid pofteà ab authore noftro doctifiimo Thomâ Harrioto, qui ilium certamine ifto Analytico fequntus eft, praeftitum fit, meliùs innotefcere possit.

    Thomas Hariot Stevens, Henry, 1819-1886 1885

  • & consecutionibus, quibus ad vivum resecanda est argument! subtili - tas ad explicandum difficilis, multorum ego saeculorum possessionem urgerem, quae nonnisi rationibus plane convincentibus deturbanda est,

    Tractatus theologicus de charitate, in quo expenditur systema J.V. Bolgenj de amore Dei. Accedit ... Joseph Chantre Herrera, Giovanni Vincenzo Bolgeni 1792

  • Partis 1. &: iuxta iroc praeiiip - poiitum reliquam eius ftruciruram difponentes, iniienerimus confentientia omnia: nihilominus idem ex profeifo inor - dine ad Oculum hic explicandum i vt de vfii illius, &: cu - iullibet partium diftinctiiis determineiiius-i ad quod mire deferuiet proportib difpofitionis ad immittendas impreffio - nes a Vifibilibus intra cubicuium cartera. daufiim, per fora - men in ep apertum, fic Vitro conuexo inftruchitn, cum dii - poiitione, qua intra Oculum naturaiiter aptatum, eadem admittuntur.

    Optica philosophia experimentis et ratione a fundamentis constituta, Nicolai ... Nicola Zucchi 1656

  • Vtranue Affertio "HL&: IV. exp) icabitur, &: connrmabitur experimento Seftione iequeiifi aiferendo: ficutvfum Vue« complebimus in eadeni, inter explicandum viiim Humoris Cryftallini, niinus defefciScientemad conuenienrem im - preiTionem - repraientatiuorurn in Retina r fine adiumcnto Vueas.

    Optica philosophia experimentis et ratione a fundamentis constituta, Nicolai ... Nicola Zucchi 1656

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