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What does perspicuous mean?

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Adjective
  1. Clearly expressed, easy to understand; lucid.
  2. (logic) Of a language or notation, such as that of formal propositional calculus: where the process of inference from premises to conclusion is explicitly laid out.
  3. (rare) Transparent; translucent.
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One neatly arranged, rich and perspicuous, the other unpredictable, plunged into anarchy, but vital and commanding.
Hugo's romantic drama is as disintegrative, regular in construction, perspicuous, and eloquent as a tragedy of Corneille.
Since ousia is a verbal noun formed from the participle on, this is not a perspicuous statement.
The tongue of him to whom they incline is foreign, and this is the perspicuous Arabic tongue.
Montague suggested a perspicuous way to capture the principle of compositionality formally.
What the philosophers in question owe us is a perspicuous explanation of how there can be a class of entities which do not behave like particulars.

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