Editing Explication (section)

=== Summary ===

In analytic philosophy, the concept of explication was first developed by [[Rudolf Carnap]]. Explication can be regarded as a scientific process which transforms and replaces "an inexact prescientific concept" (which Carnap calls the explicandum), with a "new exact concept" (which he calls the explicatum). A description and [[explanation]] of the nature and impact of the new explicit knowledge is usually called an "explication". The new explicit knowledge draws on, and is an improvement upon, previous knowledge.