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{{short description|Ontological concepts for quantum theory}}
'''Implicate order''' and '''explicate order''' are [[Ontology|ontological]] concepts for [[Quantum mechanics|quantum theory]] coined by [[Theoretical physics|theoretical physicist]] [[David Bohm]] during the early 1980s. They are used to describe two different frameworks for understanding the same phenomenon or aspect of reality. In particular, the concepts were developed in order to explain the bizarre
In Bohm's ''[[Wholeness and the Implicate Order]]'', he used these notions to describe how the appearance of such phenomena might appear differently, or might be characterized by, varying principal factors, depending on contexts such as scales.<ref name="wholeness">David Bohm: ''Wholeness and the Implicate Order'', Routledge, 1980 ({{ISBN|0-203-99515-5}}).</ref> The implicate (also referred to as the "enfolded") order is seen as a deeper and more fundamental order of reality. In contrast, the explicate or "unfolded" order includes the abstractions that humans normally perceive. As he wrote:
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