Rhetoric as Part of Poetic Implicit in Aristotle and throughout classical literary criticism there is a clear-cut distinction between poetic and rhetoric.

He was tender of conscience and strong of faith, this good Fra Francesco; always sad, but never stern toward Fra Paolo's failure to hold a belief implicit as his own in some doctrines of his beloved Church which he held to be vital.

The salvationist school of commentators calls this an interpolation; but the spirit of it is implicit throughout the whole of Homer's dealing with the gods; whenever, at least, he deals with them at length, and not merely incidentally.

There may be men in whose turning from implicit to explicit denial, no such element of relief is concernedI can not tell; but although the structure of Paul Faber's life had in it material of noble sort, I doubt if he was one of such.

Whereas Kant had placed it outside of and before our experience, in the dinge an sich which are the causes of the latter, his monistic successors all look for it either after experience, as its absolute completion, or else consider it to be even now implicit within experience as its ideal signification.