The phrase "argument that explains" is correct and usable in written English.
It can be used when discussing a point or reasoning that clarifies or justifies a particular stance or position.
Example: "The author presents an argument that explains the significance of climate change in contemporary society."
Alternatives: "explanation of the argument" or "argument that clarifies".
Oliver E. Williamson, the field's leading innovator and a winner of the 2009 Nobel Prize in Economic Sciences, sketched a historical argument that explains the transformation of an economy based on many small transactions into one based on large hierarchies that transact among themselves and into which individuals are absorbed.
In an appendix, we provide an argument that explains the numerical results provided sufficient smoothness is assumed.
And he adds that the visual system study provides a "good argument" that explains why the human neocortex evolved to grow so big.
Not that we have to call them fools or idiots, but we have to present an intellectual arguments that explain the flaws in their reasoning.
Several of the arguments advocated by Fritz and colleagues to explain why randomized controlled trials on antibiotic prophylaxis in humans did not provide conclusive results are the same arguments that explain why the results of animal experiments are of limited use for the clinician.
The company sent a letter, dated Saturday, to shareholders that explains the arguments for keeping Computer Associates intact, according to a filing today with the Securities and Exchange Commission.
But the general equilibrium model embodies two arguments about markets that explain why they can spur economic growth, and these can also be applied to real markets.
It's tempting, if only as an exercise, to scout around for some kind of feminist argument that might explain the increasingly loud resistance to Ms. Kennedy, who does, after all, offer a high-profile persona, deep financial resources and a sound intellect.
"What changed that explains the current primary reliance on the AUMF argument?" wonders Kerr.
On the other hand, there are arguments that might explain the growing optimism.
The Argument from Uncodifiability is that explaining a virtuous person's action in terms of a desire for doing N things, where N is a natural property of actions, combined with the belief that something is N falsely presumes that there is some finite and codifiable natural kind N corresponding to every virtuous quality in actions.
