Sentence examples for causal descriptions from inspiring English sources

Disadvantages include lack of detailed clinical information and absence of causal descriptions.

The last candidates, rigidified metalinguistic and causal descriptions, are the most promising.

For many policy makers, understanding the mechanism is often of less importance whereas researchers are more likely to value uncovering the specific causal mechanisms or explanations that underlie causal descriptions.

Finally, regardless of whether subjects are randomized, it is important to recognize the narrow focus of most research studies that aim at making causal inferences as well as the critical difference between causal descriptions and explanations.

Another approach to elucidating the role of genes and DNA is to replace loose information talk with concrete causal descriptions grounded in an explicit understanding of causation (Waters 2000, and forthcoming).

Perhaps these considerations should motivate the descriptivist to abandon "great deeds" descriptions in favor of metalinguistic descriptions like 'the person named 'Bill Gates" or causal descriptions like 'the person that stands at the origin of this chain of uses of the name 'Bill Gates".

First, however, we discuss an important distinction between causal description and causal explanation.

A causal description of the process cannot be attained; we have to content ourselves with complementary descriptions.

So, where Bohr identified the causal description with the conservation of energy, Heisenberg saw it as the deterministic evolution of Schrödinger's ψ-function.

One reply to the multiple realization objection from this perspective explicitly argues for token-token reduction, discussing how the causal description of a token mechanism explains (Delehanty 2005).

The transition from a causal description in terms of the evolution of the ψ-function to a classical space-time description is characterized by the discontinuous change that occurs by the act of measurement.