Sentence examples for be explanatory of from inspiring English sources

But this condition cannot be met, because nothing could be explanatory of an agent's action independently of the contents of his motivational set: his desires and dispositions.

On a standard reading what he means by this is that a consideration can be a normative reason for some agent only if it is possible (i.e. would under certain conditions be the case) that the agent be motivated to act for that reason, and for it thereby to be explanatory of his acting.

Indeed bodily causes and effects only form part of his project insofar as their parallelism is explanatory of the operations of the mind.

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

2. This becomes clear in the closing lines of chapter 16: "Hence in these cases the middle term and what it is explanatory of must be equal and must convert.

Graphs in Figure 5 are explanatory of the above said correlation.

The primary finding from our secondary analysis documents that the characteristics of men who sought treatment at the sites were explanatory of baseline DC measures.

Consequently, obesity can not be explanatory for the findings of the effect of high fat diet feeding on myocardial function.

The variety of definitions on QOL, sample characteristics, design of the studies and different instruments and procedures applied can be explanatory factors of the heterogeneity of results.

Criteria evaluating impairments and activity limitations, personal beliefs and environmental conditions are collected because they can be explanatory factors of the primary and secondary criteria [ 29- 39].

The model will be explanatory, given the design of the study.