Talk:clarificatory

RFV discussion: September 2023–April 2024
Is sense 1, "Of or pertaining to clarification", distinct from "That serves to clarify"? I'm not sure what forum is best to raise this in. I suspect this entry from 2010 is just exemplifying the old practice of "give multiple ways of phrasing the definition, but put them on multiple lines as if they are different definitions". But I could be wrong: in theory you could give a lecture about clarification and it could be a "clarificatory lecture" in the way a lecture about anatomy would be an "anatomical lecture". But in practice I think "clarificatory" would only be used if your lecture clarified things, and not if it was confusing, so I think sense 1 should be removed or folded into sense 2. - -sche (discuss) 20:08, 1 September 2023 (UTC)
 * There are some citations having to do with English philosophy of the middle of the 20th century that could be read that way, I suppose, but seem merely ambiguous. Eg. "Now the features of later Wittgensteinʼs clarificatory models would again be imposed on the objects of clarification in forgetfulness of what such models really are, that is, modes of representing language use." I'd still expect the meaning of this particular quotee to be "clarifying" rather than "about clarification", but there may be some use somewhere in the philosophical discussions that would fit with the "about clarification" sense. DCDuring (talk) 22:17, 1 September 2023 (UTC)


 * RFV-failed. - -sche (discuss) 21:43, 6 April 2024 (UTC)