Consider this: the author uses the word "explanation". "That" implies he referred to it earlier. Therefore, a possible assumption would be that "explanation" is "This is bigger than this". However, my belief

For it would be quite consistent with that explanation of the phrase "bigger than" that it should mean, for instance, "to the left of". I have no idea what he means by "that explanation" nor "to the

My first interpretation was quite peculiar, and I recently noticed that it doesn't really hold. I don't understand what he mean exactly by "explanation". What explanation?? He says that explanation like he gave an explanation

"For it would be quite consistent with that explanation of the phrase "bigger than" Can you reword this sentence? Thank you.

I perhaps did not understand the sentence at all.

I hoped that someone would reword the sentence with the expression "to the left of" because I don't know exactly why he says "that explanation" because there's no explanation to refer to previously.

Ah, nevermind explanation and clarification means pretty much the same thing.

I don't even think that it is an explanation. It is more like a clarification than anything else in my opinion. What do you think?

"It might seem as if, if I take two pieces of chalk and say, "This is bigger than this", then what I say might be ambiguous. For it would be quite consistent with that explanation of the phrase "bigger than" that it should

The thing is that I was trying to make a sentence that sounded as weird to me.