This paper critically discusses political opportunity structure theory and defends alternative explanations for variance in levels of ethnic protest among migrants.
Robert Boyle defended teleological explanations in anatomy and physiology (specifically, the integrated relations among the parts and whole of an organism) by laying out how they were compatible with and supported by mechanistic explanations (Lennox 1983).
For most of its history, biogeography has been divided into proponents of vicariance explanations, who defend that distribution patterns can mainly be explained by geological, tectonic-isolating events; and dispersalists, who argue that current distribution patterns are largely the result of recent migration events.
But if so, one ends up, so the argument concludes, with P(1) part of the explanation for P(k) and P(k) part of the explanation for P(1) and this contradicts the non-circularity of mathematical explanations (which is one of the premises about mathematical explanations defended by Lange).
Then, we improve the previous empirical Bernstein bounds (Audibert et al. 2009; Maurer and Pontil, 2009) [2], [30], and based on such findings, we defend the margin-based explanation against Breimanʼs doubts by proving a new generalization error bound that considers exactly the same factors as Schapire et al. (1998) [39] but is sharper than Breimanʼs (1999) [9] minimum margin bound.
In a conference call, Randy Scheunemann, Mr. McCain's senior national security and foreign policy adviser, and Senator Jon Kyl, a fellow Arizona Republican and a McCain supporter, offered explanations defending the accuracy of Mr. McCain's statement, before essentially conceding that he had erred at least in part.
In a conference call, Randy Scheunenmann, Mr. McCain's senior national security and foreign policy adviser, along with Senator Jon Kyl, Republican of Arizona and a McCain supporter, went through a variety of tortured explanations defending the accuracy of Mr. McCain's statement, before essentially conceding he had misspoken.
In that paper Davidson sets out to defend the view that the explanation of action by reference to reasons (something we do, for instance, when we refer to an agent's intentions or motives in acting) is also a form of causal explanation.
White House officials disastrously tried to defend the situation with ever-changing explanations.
He had opened an ultimately melancholy session dominated by budget woes by suddenly and without explanation defending the Breakfast in the Classroom program, quietly pushed through in January.
