The phrase "argued to explain" is correct and usable in written English.
It can be used when discussing a claim or assertion made in an argument that aims to clarify or elucidate a particular point or concept.
Example: "The author argued to explain the complexities of human behavior in his latest research paper."
Alternatives: "contended to clarify" or "asserted to elucidate".
The best example is the breakup of the ancient supercontinent of Gondwana during the Mesozoic-Cenozoic, which has often been argued to explain austral disjunct distribution patterns such as that of ratites (Fig. 1b right).
As particularly Hempel (1965) has argued, to explain an event involves at least implicitly an appeal to law-like regularities providing us with reasons for expecting that an event of a certain kind will occur under specific circumstances.
Character displacement between both species has been argued to explain bill sizes in sympatry.
Since then, habituation has been often argued to explain differences in FID among areas with different human disturbance [29].
The potential advantage of including this function is that the ratio effect is sometimes argued to explain more variance in reaction time and accuracy than the numerical distance effect (Bugden & Ansari, 2011).
Hence, while differences in strength of selection, rather than in the degree of genetic stress could be argued to explain habitat differences in levels of FA, the hypothesis that increased FA in ponds is caused by genetic stress cannot be rejected.
Goodwin assesses Obama's interview thusly: "What was interesting to me about his talk with you is I think he learned from that first term where he was arguing to explaining things.
The lower skeletal muscle mass of female athletes compared to their male counterparts was argued to be another explaining factor of the lower sex difference with increasing race distance [ 28].
This is argued to be too small to explain the differences found in the results from PILPS Phase 2 e).
"That is not true," Mr. Geithner argued, and tried to explain what he called the Fed's unique system of governance.
For instance, Berwick 1998, has argued that efforts to explain the piecemeal development of knowledge of linguistic universals in our species may be unnecessary in light of the new, Minimalist conception of syntax (see Chomsky 1995).
