Sentence examples for a particular explanatory from inspiring English sources

These findings imply that conceptual change may often be achieved by fine-tuning a particular explanatory system, rather than supplanting intuitive or creationist explanations with evolutionary ones.

In practice genotypic and phenotypic descriptions are not total but partial, restricted to some subset of the characteristics of the organism that is regarded as relevant for a particular explanatory or experimental purpose.

These motivational narratives set up a particular explanatory project, which shall be called the 'cumulative-adaptation' project here.

This process involves summing the Akaike weights across all the models that include a particular explanatory variable.

This relative variable importance is calculated by summing the Akaike weights across all the models that include a particular explanatory variable.

In response to this objection, one could distinguish between reconstructions that favour one particular notion of natural selection, coupled to a particular explanatory practice, and those that are more liberal.

The explanations sought in any particular explanatory situation will draw on these multiple accounts as appropriate for the level of representation adequate to achieve its pragmatic ends.

McDowell's assertion that "someone who aims at explanations of the ideal-involving kind must be alive to the thought that there is sure to be a gap between actual current conception and ideal structure in his own case as well as others" (McDowell 1985, 392) doesn't appear to uniquely pick out any particular explanatory framework.

If we wish to understand why an agent performed the action that she did, as opposed to having a full sufficient causal explanation of why her body moved as it did, we are interested in a selective explanation that part of the total sufficient condition that satisfies the particular explanatory interests behind reasons-explanations (Davidson 1991, 163).

As Campbell himself notes, the sort of explanation that physical properties can provide for hurricanes is neither exceptionless nor rational, but it nonetheless makes it intelligible why a hurricane is occurring or how it is behaving within its own particular explanatory framework.

Rather, "Biologists typically make do with a plurality of species concepts, invoking one or the other depending on the particular explanatory or investigative context" (Robert and Baylis 2003, 3).