A pilot study we conducted showed that, before interpreting the results, the teachers needed some explanation about the structure of the report.
Indeed, it is a striking feature not just of Hempel (1965) but of many other treatments of scientific explanation that much of the discussion in fact focuses on "ordinary life" singular causal explanations similar to (2.4.1), the tacit assumption being that conclusions about the structure of such explanations have fairly direct implications for understanding explanation in science.
A good explanation would likely tell us a lot about the structure of the discipline itself.
They conclude with an explanation for the structure of The Descent of Man, which appears to be a book about human origins bundled with one about sexual selection, birds and butterflies fluttering through it.
This first study taught us a great deal about the structure, timing, and placement of explanation functionality to manage cognitive load, engagement findings that have informed subsequent approaches.
Although probability has nothing to do with the future it can be used as a criteria for reliability of explanations about the future under the assumption of constant structures.
There is an orthodox Keynesian explanation for this, of course, but perhaps there is something about the structure of the modern welfare state, with its elaborate system of transfer payments, that simply makes it difficult to trim.
In order to get some explanations about the differences in their biochemical properties, modeling the tertiary structure of MP became important.
Given the controversy about the structure of centromeric nucleosomes, it is important to rule out artifactual explanations for the observed results (which themselves are not in question).
