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
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.
Thus the various ritual capacities of North Mekeo chiefs and sorcerers typify the sort of interpersonal agency implicit in Melanesian personal partibility.
