Sentence examples for defensible explanations from inspiring English sources

I am also persuaded that "Inference to Best Explanation" is a valid way to do science, but also encouraged by what I take is the authors' admission that the existence of other defensible explanations for the same "surprising fact" strengthens our (mine and Eric Bapteste's) claim that whatever Darwin meant by the Tree "simile", it could/should now be taken as an hypothesis.

There is a less defensible explanation too: "Hollywood's value system is not necessarily about growth," says Dan Jansen, who runs the Boston Consulting Group's media practice.

WASHINGTON -- When Mitt Romney told a crowd in Ohio last week that he had read a report saying Jeep was "thinking of moving all production to China," there was at least a potentially defensible explanation.

However, we have to ask whether signaling through the electromagnetic field may provide a defensible explanation of the observed effects.

If there is no defensible theory of explanation embodying a non-trivially constraining relevance relation, it cannot be a good criticism of van Fraassen's theory that he fails to provide this[26].

"Everything I say in there is completely defensible with proper context and explanation.

If so, the idea that the DN/IS requirements are at least necessary conditions for ideal explanation may be defensible after all, although the counterexamples to the sufficiency of the model noted in will remain.

Such debates will not end our political disagreements, but they will set much higher standards of discussion, requiring fuller explanations of positions and even modifications to make them more defensible.

Hence, teaching toward student "acceptance of evolution as the best scientific explanation currently available" (p. 341) is a more ethically defensible educational goal as long as it is not required of students (Southerland et al. [2001]), a conclusion similarly reached by Smith and Siegel ([2004]).

Thus, to the extent that they are defensible, his approach to aitia may be regarded as blurring the canons of causation and explanation.

Were our actions defensible?