explicit vs implicit
Definitions
adjective
- precisely and clearly expressed or readily observable; leaving nothing to implication
- in accordance with fact or the primary meaning of a term
Examples
All forms of classical orthodoxy either explicitly reject or reject in principle kenotic theology.
As the author repeatedly points out, the pornographic material he seized wasn't simply more explicit than 18-certificate films or top-shelf magazines.
The Ahmadiyah were explicitly "warned and ordered" that "as long as they consider themselves to hold to Islam, to discontinue the promulgation of interpretations and activities that are deviant from the principal teachings of Islam, that is to say the promulgation of beliefs that recognize a prophet with all his teachings who comes after the Prophet Muhammad SAW.
Definitions
adjective
- being without doubt or reserve
- implied though not directly expressed; inherent in the nature of something
Examples
Hunt was also to write that he and Millais used to stand in front of the Raphael cartoons (then at Hampton Court) and judge them fearlessly, also that they condemned Raphael's Transfiguration (which they had never seen) 'for its grandiose disregard of the simplicity of truth, the pompous posturing of the Apostles, and the unspiritual attitudinising of the Saviour.'
We all have implicit or unconscious biases that impact our behavior.
We show above that Hipparchus' and Ptolemy 's arguments are based on an implicit false premise - that one would feel the motion.
