Sentence examples for cause explanations from inspiring English sources

For the IR explanations, half of the visitors decreased their use of desire-based and proximate cause explanations, but 45% increased endorsement of need-based adaptation.

On the other hand, endorsement of desire-based and proximate cause explanations and the (creationist) intentional design explanation decreased following the visit, and all three of them were positively correlated.

Due to the nature of science, such as tentative knowledge (McComas et al. 1998a, b), the tenet of science that mandates that scientific explanations be based on the best available data may cause explanations to shift as new data are gathered, suggesting there may be a different explanation (e.g. the debate over whether drinking coffee good for you or bad for you, see Higdon and Frei, 2006).

The Greek aitia has a wider sense, embracing cause, reason, explanation, and classification.

An apparently satisfactory common cause explanation of this phenomenon is that high humidity causes both long drying times and long take-off times.

We routinely do not regard correlations among the motions and properties of the parts of these systems as demanding a common cause explanation.

In contrast, the two community of science variables and the personal-motivational variables were positively related to the ER variables and negatively related to the IR proximate cause explanation and the CR intentional design explanation.

The explanation of the correlation among the motions of its parts is not a common cause explanation, but the fact that in 'equilibrium' the myriad connections between its parts make it act as a unit.

The correlation between the motions of each bird in the flock could have a rather straightforward common cause explanation: there could be a leader bird that every other bird follows.

Thus, rather than do that, we regard such systems as single unified systems, and do not demand a common cause explanation for the correlated motions and properties of their parts.

In Group 2, where participants provided completions answering the "Why?" question, which was expected to cause Explanation relations favoring subject reference, there was indeed a very high rate of reference to the subject of S1 with the pronoun in S2 (as coded by two native speakers): 83 %, vs. just 17%% reference to the Goal in S1.