Things that explain or serve as explanations; clarifications or accounts that explain phenomena.
From Latin explicans (explaining), present participle of explicare (to unfold/explain), used as a noun in logical analysis.
In formal explanation, your explicans (the explanation) must clarify your explicandum (the thing explained)—philosophers borrowed this Latin terminology to be super precise about what they're doing.
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