"Implicit"/"Explicit"; "Implicate"/"Explicate"--1

       It’s nice to know there’s a simple image at the basis of what might otherwise be a very “Latinate” and abstract set of terms--”implicit,” “explicit,” “implicate,” and “explicate.”  The little “pli” syllable is the bearer of that image:  “to fold.”  A thing as easy to imagine as folding clothes or a blanket can even help one stay with a modern physicist’s use of such words.
 
       David Bohm says that today’s physics posits an “explicative” and an “implicative” order of things.  The underlying reality is “implicative,” “folded in,” irrevocably ambiguous; but from time to time, we are able to “unfold” from that realm a precisely statable explicit characterization of reality.  This is the “explicative” order; it is unambiguous and clear.