The phrase "a type of explanation" is correct and usable in written English.
You can use it when categorizing or describing a specific kind of explanation within a broader context.
Example: "The teacher provided a type of explanation that helped clarify the complex concept for the students."
Alternatives: "a form of explanation" or "a category of explanation".
In saying the answer lies in people's behavior, he is asking his fellow economic historians to revert to a type of explanation they had mostly abandoned and in addition is evoking an idea that historians seldom consider as an explanatory variable, that of evolution.
Following this aim, al-Fārābī first rejects the attempts to interpret Aristotle's work along Neoplatonic and monotheistic lines (in this he has probably in mind al-Kindī's theologizing conception of metaphysics), and advocates a type of explanation akin to that of the Greek commentators (Alexander of Aphrodisias and Themistius).
It might be a set of assumptions, a type of explanation, or a predisposition to a particular type of reasoning.
Lipton and Thompson (1988) attempt a more spirited defense of natural selection against charges of circularity by arguing that natural selection explanations are recursive rather than circular and are a type of filter explanation.
Rational choice theory extends a type of social explanation found in microeconomics.
It is simply a type of extra explanation.
Since Aristotle obviously conceives of a causal investigation as the search for an answer to the question "why?", and a why-question is a request for an explanation, it can be useful to think of a cause as a certain type of explanation.
A different type of explanation is given by a 'multiple risk factors' model, of a kind that has become popular in etiological accounts of developmental disorders.
Differences in performance at school – in both sports and the more academic subjects – have a different type of explanation.
