implicate/explicate vs. implicit/explicit
Posted: Thu Feb 02, 2023 11:48 pm
I'm editing an article in which "implicate" and "explicate" are used as adjectives or in a nominal sense where I would expect "implicit" and "explicit". The author is an artist and a PhD philosopher, native to the Netherlands. The spelling and other aspects of the article are very proper British, with a decidedly academic flavor. (The journal I'm editing it for is a user-group publication, not a refereed academic journal, but with many academic readers.)
Is this usage accepted in academic works, particularly in philosophy? In freely-available online dictionaries, the "*ate" form is shown only as a transitive verb. (Since my own education stops short of a PhD, and neither mathematics nor linguistics helps me to resolve this, I'm hoping for advice from the audience here.)
Is this usage accepted in academic works, particularly in philosophy? In freely-available online dictionaries, the "*ate" form is shown only as a transitive verb. (Since my own education stops short of a PhD, and neither mathematics nor linguistics helps me to resolve this, I'm hoping for advice from the audience here.)