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elucidate

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To make clear or manifest; to render more intelligible; to illustrate; as, an example will elucidate the subject.

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It is the mission of the twentieth century to elucidate the irrational. Maurice Merleau-Ponty

The truest art I would strive for in any work would be to give the page the same qualities as earth: weather would land on it harshly; light would elucidate the most difficult truths; wind would sweep away obtuse padding. Gretel Ehrlich

Value is consequently the necessary theoretical starting point whence we can elucidate the peculiar phenomenon of prices resulting from capitalist competition. Rudolf Hiferding

The object of the law of value is to elucidate the actual exchange relations of commodities. Rudolf Hiferding

The disesteem into which moralists have fallen is due at bottom to their failure to see that in an age like this one the function of the moralist is not to exhort men to be good but to elucidate what the good is. The problem of sanctions is secondary. Walter Lippmann

clarify the mystery surrounding her death Source: Internet

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