If the generalizations are explanatory rather than merely descriptive that is, if they tell us why we have some implicature conventions but not others then they can presumably be refined.
Many just deny the intuition behind the objection, and maintain that even the strictest conceptual analyses of our intentional terms and concepts purport to define them in terms of their bona-fide causal roles, and that any norms they reflect are explanatory rather than prescriptive.
The findings of this study are explanatory rather than predictive for understanding the structures through which social capital is facilitated in contexts of development at micro levels (organisational and community).
Because vision impairment may lead to problems with self-reported health, activity, ADLs, falls and depression, and therefore these could be considered to be on the "causal pathway" and thus be explanatory factors rather than confounders, analyses were carried out with and without these variables.
Two thirds of the studies were classified as explanatory rather than exploratory.
The model was developed, however, for explanatory rather than predictive purposes; low sensitivity reflects the small number of covariates and use of neighborhood-level variables.
As in other areas of evolutionary biology, answers to questions on the origin and nature of the first life forms can only be regarded as inquiring and explanatory rather than definitive and conclusive.
This is the general approach used in "realist reviews" [ 45] - a strategy for synthesizing research that has an explanatory rather than judgmental focus.
Feedback Students learn better with explanatory rather than corrective feedback alone Explanatory feedback reduces extraneous processing by providing students with proper schemas to repair their misconceptions Explanatory feedback was replaced with perceptual feedback, which is provided by the haptic device as force feedback.
Just as correlations are associations that are not necessarily causally defined, bibliometric associations and clusters are exploratory rather than explanatory.
As we argued above, most research studies yielding causal inferences in the social sciences tends to be descriptive rather than explanatory.
