Sentence examples for explanations explanations from inspiring English sources

As stated previously, Davidson and other action theorists defended the position that reason explanations are causal explanations — explanations that cite the agent's desires, intentions, and means-end beliefs as causes of the action [see Goldman 1970].

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).

These questions have evolutionary explanations – explanations that may only rarely emerge in medical and health profession's classes.

The neurological turn has become what the "cultural" turn was a few decades ago: the all-purpose non-explanation explanation of everything.

By the end of the evening, six reporters, working as a team from the newsroom of the New Orleans Times-Picayune, had managed to force out a non-explanation explanation of the blackout from Entergy and the Superdome's operators.

Again, to the extent that there are non-causal forms of explanation, explanation will remain a topic that is at least somewhat independent of causation.

His major articles during this interval included "The Theoretician's Dilemma" (1958), "Inductive Inconsistencies" (1960), and "Deductive-Nomological vs. Statistical Explanation", "Explanation in Science and in History", and "Rational Action" (all in 1962).

"Sometimes there are human explanations, partial explanations," he said.

These causal explanations are just that: explanations.

His conversation is expansive, full of explanations within explanations as well as defensiveness and sensitivity.

"It was like, 'Let's parody the gobbledygook' — because honestly, that movie — all those explanations, and explanations of explanations," Mr. Stone said.