Sentence examples for apparent explanatory from inspiring English sources

Perhaps ironically, Popper was himself a teenage Marxist, attracted by the apparent explanatory power of the ideology.

"I found that those of my friends who were admirers of Marx, Freud, and Adler, were impressed by a number of points common to these theories, and especially by their apparent explanatory power.

Parfit's own concerns about proposal (a) – the descriptive proposal – are based on the apparent explanatory gap between the claim that the couple's act makes things worse for "the child produced by the couple" and the result we seek to explain – that the act of entering into the contract is wrong.

Scanlon labels these 'desires in the directed-attention sense'; on this view, (apparent) reasons are explanatory of desires, and not the reverse.

Moreover, a well-known problem is that works like this can be seen as supporting anti-naturalistic views and apparent compatibilities with supernatural explanatory factors.

The explanatory power for apparent modulus of models with a tissue modulus coefficient of variation (COV) range of 21 31% was 13% greater than homogeneous models (COV=0).

Both homogeneous and inhomogeneous models that were unique to each specimen had at least 8% greater explanatory power for apparent modulus than models that applied the same material properties to all specimens.

After adjustment for other potential explanatory variables, this apparent benefit was lost in both subgroups.

Differences in preterm birth rates and interventions have been identified as explanatory factors for apparent difference in IMR between populations.

The reduced compensatory capacity of older persons' nervous systems has been proposed as an explanatory mechanism for their apparent vulnerability (Kondakis et al. 1989).

And this is an apparent reason for regarding the representative realist's explanatory hypothesis as providing the best of these competing explanations.