"Implied" is to "explicit" as "implication" is to what?

Solution 1:

Declaration: a formal or explicit statement or announcement

In short, Bob should say: "My declaration contradicts your perceived implication."

Solution 2:

I think your expression "explicitly stated" is a bit redundant, and I'd use statement as the word you want.

I don't think one can state something implicitly...

Solution 3:

Although I agree with the notion that were there a need for such a word, one would exist, I couldn't resist the attempt. So if an implication is something which has been implied, and therefore not stated, we're looking for a word that means "that which has been explicitly said". The closest I can get is assertion.