In the "Darwin 2009" project, when the students' questions were explicit, the museum educators provided an evolutionary explanation, also by means of maieutic procedures to aid students in remembering what they already knew about these topics.
Thus, if most psychotropic drug use among the elderly transforms into long-term use, the process of transformation itself requires more observation and explanation, again by means of longitudinal research.
In contradistinction to truly evolutionary explanations, explanations of speech dispositions by means of (institutionalized) systems of rules remain only quasi-evolutionary; the crucial explanans is not natural selection, but the system of rules that exists prior to the individual speaker's acquisition of language (cf. Sellars 1954, Searle 1995).
The conception of explanation by subsumption is rather ancient in its lineage, but Hempel advanced explicit formulations that drew distinctions between explanations of different kinds, especially those that invoke universal (or deterministic) laws, statistical (or probabilistic) laws, and the explanation of laws by means of theories.
He is quite happy with explanations of natural phenomena by means of efficient causes in general, but he will also often speak of final causes: what is unclear is whether the final causes he speaks of (with varying degrees of strength in different works) have any explanatory role to play that cannot be reduced to efficient causality (Adams 1998; cf. Goddu 1999).
Thus, some draw an analogy between the explanation of speech dispositions by means of systems of semantic rules and the evolutionary explanation of animal traits and behavior by natural selection.
A patient information letter, an explanation of the study by means of a cartoon, information about insurance issues, an informed consent form and an envelope to return the informed consent form will be handed to the caregivers at the end of the consultation.
We provide an explanation of the transmission peaks by means of the surface plasmon polaritons and magnetic polaritons resonance based on the distribution of the surface current.
"I was thinking about converted currency," he wrote by means of explanation, "the way things alter in value and the way they are altered in value".
A cast member, by means of explanation to those in the queue, said Hiro was working on a program for that.
