Sentence examples for causal accounts from inspiring English sources

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Purely causal accounts of meaning or reference seem unequal to the task.

On the other hand, since human beings are physical objects, human behavior should also be explicable in the language of physical science, in which causal accounts cast human beings as collections of physical particles.

Notwithstanding these difficulties, Kripke's work stimulated the hope that such problems could be solved, and similar causal accounts were soon suggested for "natural kind" terms such as water, tiger, and gold.

But Shakespeare sacrifices credibility for dramatic urgency: when Leontes sees Hermione and Polixenes conversing in their first scene, he simply flares up: "Too hot, too hot!" The play elides causal accounts — it ends with an invitation to provide explanations, but only offstage, where, Leontes says, "we may leisurely / Each one demand an answer to his part / Performed in this wide gap of time".

We then review causal accounts for that expansion.

In other words, causal accounts look much more consonant with studying the full nonlinear model.

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The causal account in the report is radically incomplete.

But often what remains is a circular explanation, description masquerading as a causal account.

Hill, C. A. et al. A causal account of the brain network computations underlying strategic social behavior.

"The dilemma is that phenomenal experience is a first person matter, and this seems, at first glance, to prevent the formulation of a completely objective or causal account". Science, of course, is a third-person discourse.

What it adds is a scientifically grounded causal account of the origin of sense-data in the stimulation of sense organs and the operation of the central nervous system.

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