Explication: Method and Form
DOI: https://doi.org/10.46938/tv.2015.293
Abstract
Explication belongs among the core methods of analytic philosophy. In the paper I propose to distinguish explicitely between the method of explication and its outcome. Building on the explication project of Rudolf Carnap, I attempt to elaborate upon his work. I point out the open issues arising from Carnap's criteria of adequate explication. I present the aspects in which explications differ from definitions, a logical form of explications as well as the explicit steps that are characteristic for the method of explication. Finally, I consider reasons to conceive explication (in the sense of a product of explicating) to be a relation between meaning characterization and an appropriate definition.
Keywords
Carnap; definícia; explikácia; explicandum; explikát; metóda explikovania; významová charakterizácia;
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