Sentence examples for explanation sought from inspiring English sources

One might wonder, for instance, why a particular theory is successful (as opposed to why theories in general are successful), and the explanation sought may turn on specific features of the theory itself, including its descriptions of unobservables.

When he offered a pragmatic justification of his specification of the force of gravity independently of how that force might be explained he was acting as one who sought to develop an experimentally confirmed science independent of the kinds of ultimate explanation sought by the mechanical philosophers.

The difference becomes clear only if the object of explanation and kind of explanation sought are described explicitly.

Mr. Duffy said that the administration had not yet formally asked Congress for the $87 billion, and when it did some time in the next few weeks, it would provide the explanations sought by the congressmen.

The explanations sought in any particular explanatory situation will draw on these multiple accounts as appropriate for the level of representation adequate to achieve its pragmatic ends.

On a number of occasions Boyle himself observed that explanations that appealed to such things as elasticity, gravity, acidity and the like fall short of the kind of explanations sought by a mechanical atomist (Chalmers, 1993).

"Why" explanations seek to specify the cause of a phenomenon.

The more facts that explanations seek to correlate, the more limited their scope must be.

An alternative explanation was sought, that could account for the observed differences in the overall survival.

Answering the sort of questions posed by inquisitive students noted above presents challenges in defining the object of explanation precisely and specifying the type of explanation being sought.

No further explanation is sought, as if the clashes were the inevitable expression of inexplicable primeval urges.