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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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The formula of standard logic, moreover, displays its truth-conditions in a very perspicuous way.
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.
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.
They appreciated the high seriousness and the perspicuous aspects of his intelligence, both evident in his books.
He is now, though not wholly perspicuous, less enigmatic than he was at the beginning.

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