Fact vs Explicitation - What's the difference?
fact | explicitation |
(archaic) Action; the realm of action.
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A wrongful or criminal deed.
* 1590 , (Edmund Spenser), (The Faerie Queene) , III.ix:
(obsolete) Feat.
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An honest observation.
Something actual as opposed to invented.
* {{quote-book, year=1922, author=(Ben Travers), title=(A Cuckoo in the Nest)
, chapter=2 Something which has become real.
Something concrete used as a basis for further interpretation.
An objective consensus on a fundamental reality that has been agreed upon by a substantial number of people.
Information about a particular subject, especially actual conditions and/or circumstances.
(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:
As an initialism fact
is federation against copyright theft.As a noun explicitation is
(rare|possibly nonstandard) the process or fact of becoming explicit or of causing to be explicit; that which makes something explicit.fact
English
Noun
(en noun)- She was empassiond at that piteous act, / With zelous enuy of Greekes cruell fact , / Against that nation [...].
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Antonyms
* (Something actual) fictionDerived terms
* factual * factoid * accessory after the fact * accessory before the fact * after the fact * as a matter of fact * attorney-in-fact * contrary to fact * fact-finding * fact-finder * fact of life * fact or fiction * fact sheet * finding of fact * in fact * in point of fact * * question of factSee also
* value * opinion * beliefExternal links
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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.