In einer eMail vom 07.01.05 11:30:20 (MEZ) Mitteleuropäische Zeit schreibt [log in to unmask]:

Thats an odd assertion. Why do you think the TEI mandates
"Make explicit the implicit" ?

Because I've read it (I think in the late eigthies) in the
"Gentle Introduction". And the phrase is already there
in the World Wide Web as we see by google-ing
"making explicit what is conjectural or implicit"
with a lot of derived occurences.

Ask some elder man from the TEI board
(or encoding philosopher Lachance)
if my understanding of TEIs approach to encoding
is so odd as my Englisch ;-)

Best regards,
Herbert