The Explicative myths, arising from utility, from the necessity of knowing.
"Essay on the Creative Imagination"
Th. Ribot
The non-Explicative myths, resulting from a need of luxury, from a pure desire to create: these undergo only a partial transformation.
"Essay on the Creative Imagination"
Th. Ribot
When a proposition predicates of a subject something contained in the full notion, concept, or definition of the subject term, it is called Verbal, Analytic, or Explicative: verbal, inasmuch as it merely explains the meaning of a name; Explicative for the same reason; analytic, inasmuch as it unties the bundle of attributes held together in the concept and pays out one, or all one by one.
"Logic, Inductive and Deductive"
William Minto