"I really would have expected Nielsen to be aggressive about searching out explanations themselves and not relying on us to do it for them," Mr. Wurtzel said.
Mogahadam and his co-founders were inspired by VH1's Pop-Up Video, initially writing all the site's explanations themselves.
Additionally, van Fraassen (1985, pp. 297 298) argues that scientific explanations of evidential consilience may be accepted without the explanations themselves being understood as true, which once again raises questions about the nature of scientific explanation.
The explanations themselves and the language used in the explanations were both derived from the most prevalent themes in visitors' responses to the earlier open-ended questions (Evans et al. 2010) and the kind of language visitors in that study used to explain the problems (see Tables 2 and 3 for definitions and examples).
As Ruse points out, as long as it is not possible to explain adaptation phenomena without resorting to the metaphor of design (evidently teleological), then both the phenomenon to be explained and the explanations themselves are, in a relevant sense, teleological.
C16 There was evidence, however, that some children found alternative explanations themselves.
The second problem was whether to do additional work to marry statements and their explanations more effectively, or whether to remove the explanations themselves.
Many of those who traveled here to mourn Mr. Berwick, 48, who retired last month, could not begin to venture an explanation to themselves or others.
One group adopting this explanation called themselves the iatrophysicists; another school, preferring to view life as a series of chemical processes, were called iatrochemists.
Four possible explanations suggest themselves.
