Sentence examples for an ultimate explanation from inspiring English sources

Alexander did not attempt to give an ultimate explanation for the world's existence; he tried merely to explain the world in terms of spontaneous creative tendencies.

If there is an ultimate explanation for our contingent and perishable world, it would seemingly have to appeal to something that is both necessary and imperishable, which one might label "God".

As Ignatieff has written, Tolstoy was contemptuous of all kinds of doctrine, both religious and secular, yet could never quite give up on the possibility of an ultimate explanation.

While nous is not the teleological and ethical cause for which Socrates was searching in the Phaedo, nous could serve as an ultimate explanation.

For philosophers who are interested in explaining content, or representation, in non-representational terms, then, mentalist theories can only be a first step in the task of giving an ultimate explanation of the foundations of linguistic representation.

While Kitcher expresses skepticism about whether this has actually occurred among contemporary populations that we think of as candidate races (e.g. contemporary American groups picked out by "black," "white," "Asian," etc)., his model does suggest a possible role for culture as an ultimate explanation, one that shapes the evolution of traits.

This suggests that sex ratio manipulation in relation to sex differences in maturation time as an adaptive strategy to maximize fitness is a sound ultimate explanation for pigeons (see also Edmunds and Ankney 1987), as it is for kestrels (Dijkstra et al. 1990; Daan et al. 1996; Smallwood and Smallwood 1998; Pen et al. 1999).

For example, one's eating the doughnut might be explained by one's desire for rich foods (a relatively proximal explanation), but it also might be explained as the product of the evolutionary pressures that produced such desires (a relatively ultimate explanation).

However, the prior existence of such tendencies cannot be regarded as a complete "ultimate" explanation, since without the social norms to stabilize cooperation it does not evolve in this instance.

The distinction between a proximal and ultimate explanation is one that indicates relative distance of the explanans from the explanandum.

The demand for the unconditioned, in turn, is essentially a demand for ultimate explanation, and links up with the rational prescription to secure systematic unity and completeness of knowledge.