Two newly developed research methods to investigate the concept generation process are clearly explained: the explanation-based protocol analysis and constructive simulation.
When Mr. Sullivan made a presentation to the audit committee on June 20, offering his reasons for the expense shift, KPMG auditors delicately explained that the explanation did not meet accounting rules.
Are there things that the existence of a soul could explain and explain better than the explanation that we would have if we had to limit ourselves to bodies?
As Ruse points out, as long as it is not possible to explain adaptation phenomena without resorting to the metaphor of design (evidently teleological), then both the phenomenon to be explained and the explanations themselves are, in a relevant sense, teleological.
Unfortunately, it is far from clear what that evidence would be unless it includes the truth of some of the very core beliefs whose nature we are trying to explain, apparently rendering the explanation circular.
More modest patient expectations of the single-handed GP's accessibility may explain this, or the explanation may be concealed by other factors regarding organisation, service and priorities that we have not been able to adjust for.
However, as the Wikipedia link in Curry's blog explains, the latter explanation tends to exclude "the balancing fluxes of CO2 into the atmosphere from the geological reservoirs".
If Ms. Osbourne explained the change, the explanation was lost amid the beat-pounding music in the low-ceilinged bar.
We speculate that students may not remember the details of what was being explained, but found the explanation compelling enough to increase their acceptance.
More particularly, for Smith, motivating reasons are understood, following Davidson (1963), as complexes of beliefs and desires that motivate actions and that we cite in explaining them, where the explanation in question is taken to be causal (Smith 1994, 94 98).
