Sentence examples for admit of explanation from inspiring English sources

Of these things some puzzle us, while others admit of explanation in some degree.

Although not all things which admit of explanation have all four causes, e.g., geometrical figures are not efficiently caused, even a brief overview of his psychological writings reveals that Aristotle regards all four causes as in play in the explanation of living beings.

The thought here is that at this point, we will have arrived at fundamental facts that do not admit of explanations — e.g., facts about the basic physical natures of elementary particles.

Does it admit of scientific explanation?

If token emergent features are metaphysically primitive, their necessary appearance in the right circumstances should admit of causal explanation.

It should perhaps also be added that although emergent properties are indeed "unexplainable" in the sense that that they are not susceptible to a reductive explanation, this does not mean that they are "unexplainable" in every sense: the inherence of an emergent property in a particular whole does admit of an explanation by nomic subsumption.

But second, even if the facts could be restricted, without begging the question, to facts about what is concrete, it is still unclear that the nominalist will be in a position to wield the razor to his advantage, because it may be argued that such facts admit of no satisfactory explanation without the aid of scientific (and especially physical) theories which make indispensable use of mathematics.

Alternatively, we might find that, while each case admits of Darwinian explanation, all the cases are very different.

First, social reality is too complex to admit of full description and explanation.

I found myself hemming and hawing, because the Guttmacher data reveals some complicated trends that don't altogether admit of a tidy or easy explanation for this overall decrease.

But that a Southern State should hearken to the measure, and be ready to sacrifice it's local interest as well as the general interest, admits of no rational explanation to which I am competent.