Explicitation vs Null - What's the difference?
explicitation | null |
(rare, possibly nonstandard) The process or fact of becoming explicit or of causing to be explicit; that which makes something explicit.
* 1927 , Alfred H. Lloyd, "Also the Emergence of Matter," Journal of Philosophy , vol. 24, no. 12, p. 326:
* 1962 , Helmut Fleischer, "The Materiality of Matter," Studies in Soviet Thought , vol. 2, no. 1, p. 15:
* 1988 , P. A. Kirschner and M. A. M. Meester, "The laboratory in higher science education," Higher Education , vol. 17, no. 1, p. 81:
* 2007 , R. Lanier Anderson, "Comments on Wayne Martin, Theories of Judgment''," ''Philosophical Studies , vol. 137, no. 1, p. 105:?
* 2009 , G. Aloysius, "Demystifying Modernity: Notes Not so Tentative," Social Scientist , vol. 37, no. 9/10, p. 54:
* 2009 , Chris Ackerley, "Book Review: Beckett at 100: Revolving It All''" (eds. Linda Ben Zvi and Angela Moorjani, Oxford, 2008), ''The Journal of British Studies , vol. 48, no. 2, p. 550:
A non-existent or empty value or set of values.
Zero]] quantity of [[expression, expressions; nothing.
Something that has no force or meaning.
(computing) the ASCII or Unicode character (), represented by a zero value, that indicates no character and is sometimes used as a string terminator.
(computing) the attribute of an entity that has no valid value.
One of the beads in nulled work.
(statistics) null hypothesis
Having no validity, "null and void"
insignificant
* 1924 , Marcel Proust, Within a Budding Grove :
absent or non-existent
(mathematics) of the null set
(mathematics) of or comprising a value of precisely zero
(genetics, of a mutation) causing a complete loss of gene function, amorphic.
As nouns the difference between explicitation and null
is that explicitation is (rare|possibly nonstandard) the process or fact of becoming explicit or of causing to be explicit; that which makes something explicit while null is zero, nil; the cardinal number before einn.explicitation
English
Noun
(en noun)- [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.
- The further attributes of matter—e.g. motion, space, time, substantiality, and reflection—appear merely as explicitations and concretizations of the fundamental thesis on the priority of matter over consciousness.
- This article is primarily directed at a clarification and explicitation of objectives and of their implementation in laboratory work at the Dutch Open University.
- Further, while Frege's judgment stroke has the merit of making this distinction fully explicit, and thereby available to do logical work, there are still, as Martin recognizes, real limits on explicitation here—at least within a Fregean context.
- The entire range of political theory for example is concerned with explicitation of this egalitarianism through the agency of the State.
- Beckett would have hated the fuss: too big, too noisy, too much explicitation ; the City of the Plain welcoming back its prodigal son whose image (banners, pictures, books) was everywhere.
Usage notes
* Usage is confined almost entirely to academic journals, and to the field of translation studies.null
English
Noun
(en noun)- (Francis Bacon)
- Since no date of birth was entered for the patient, his age is null .
Adjective
(en adjective)- In proportion as we descend the social scale our snobbishness fastens on to mere nothings which are perhaps no more null than the distinctions observed by the aristocracy, but, being more obscure, more peculiar to the individual, take us more by surprise.