The phrase "burden of explanation" is correct and usable in written English.
It can be used when discussing the responsibility or obligation to provide clarification or justification for something.
Example: "In this debate, the burden of explanation lies with the proponents of the new policy to justify its implementation."
Alternatives: "responsibility to explain" or "obligation to clarify."
She followed with "Mad," her ode to being angry and defying the burden of explanation.
In her Berlin circle, a fear of being under surveillance was normal; the burden of explanation lay on the less careful.
Because of the gross inequalities in representation among various districts in both houses of the Virginia Legislature, the Court put the burden of explanation on defendants, and found that they had failed to meet it.
One may still ask what exactly the child knows or represents (Burge 2010 is especially pertinent here), but the point is that there is something in the child's cognitive apparatus that is sufficient to generate this expectation, and the burden of explanation is on the view that this is learned from experience.
The cases cited by the majority all involved eleventh-hour dispositions of capital stay applications, and the cursory analysis in each ruling suggests merely that the habeas petitioner failed to carry his burden of articulating a credible explanation for having failed to raise the claim in an earlier petition.
WHAT role does the concept of burden of proof play in your explanation?
The difference in convulsive seizure frequency between the SUDEP and epilepsy control groups is also not significant after correction for multiple comparisons, but it is interesting to speculate whether genome-wide burden of deleterious variants is an explanation that might underlie this epidemiologically-derived risk factor, tying epilepsy severity into genomic burden.
The recognition that there are two levels of explanation "gives birth to the burden of relating them" (Dennett, 2010: 107).
Explanations include: burden of the donation, health risks, personal situation, and disappointment.
If it is the latter explanation, the comparative burden of morbidity associated with HBV may have been underestimated.
There was an inverse relationship between care-seeking and household head educational attainment, which was unexpected and could not be fully explained because the study lacked a qualitative component; one potential explanation is lower burden of disease among households with higher educational attainment.
