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<p>It is obvious that all deductive reasoning has a common property unshared by the other kinds in being purely ''explicatory''.  Buffier mentions a definition of logic as the art of confessing in the conclusion what we have avowed in the premisses.  This bit of satire translated into the language of sobriety amounts to charging that the logicians confine their attention exclusively to deductive reasoning.  A charge which against the logicians of other days, was quite just.</p>
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<p>It is obvious that all deductive reasoning has a common property unshared by the other kinds &mdash; in being purely ''explicatory''.  Buffier mentions a definition of logic as the art of confessing in the conclusion what we have avowed in the premisses.  This bit of satire translated into the language of sobriety &mdash; amounts to charging that the logicians confine their attention exclusively to deductive reasoning.  A charge which against the logicians of other days, was quite just.</p>
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<p>All deductive reasoning is merely explicatory.  That is to say, that which appears in the conclusion explicitly was contained in the premisses implicitly.  All explication is of one of two kinds direct or indirect.</p>
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<p>All deductive reasoning is merely explicatory.  That is to say, that which appears in the conclusion explicitly was contained in the premisses implicitly.  All explication is of one of two kinds &mdash; direct or indirect.</p>
    
<p>Explication direct consists in simply substituting for a word what is implied in that word.  A statement therefore in order to imply something not expressed must either say that a word denotes something or else that something is meant by a word.  Then the direct explication consists in saying that that what a word denotes is what is meant by the word.</p>
 
<p>Explication direct consists in simply substituting for a word what is implied in that word.  A statement therefore in order to imply something not expressed must either say that a word denotes something or else that something is meant by a word.  Then the direct explication consists in saying that that what a word denotes is what is meant by the word.</p>
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<p>Indirect explication consists in saying that what is not what is meant by the word is not denoted by the word or else in saying that which what a word denotes is not is not meant by the word.</p>
 
<p>Indirect explication consists in saying that what is not what is meant by the word is not denoted by the word or else in saying that which what a word denotes is not is not meant by the word.</p>
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<p>Explication in general, then, may be said to be the application of the maxim that what a word denotes is what is meant by the word. (Peirce 1866, "Lowell Lecture 7", CE 1, 458–459).</p>
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<p>Explication in general, then, may be said to be the application of the maxim that what a word denotes is what is meant by the word.</p>
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<p>(Peirce 1866, Lowell Lecture 7, CE 1, 458&ndash;459).</p>
 
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