Sentence examples for explanations in which from inspiring English sources

It is right to be sceptical of "tail-wags-the-dog" explanations in which big powers shift the blame for their more culpable actions to local allies.

For students' need-based explanations, although not purely mechanistic or natural, are still causal explanations in which the external physical conditions or internal forces act to bring out the necessary adaptive transformation.

There is little doubt that explanations in which there are no such gaps (no "action at a distance") often strike us as particularly satisfying.[13] However, as Christopher Hitchcock shows in an illuminating paper (Hitchcock, 1995), even here the CM model leaves out something important.

Most causalists will allow that reason explanations of action are teleological but contend that teleological explanations in terms of goals — purposive explanations in other words — are themselves analyzable as causal explanations in which the agent's primary reason(s) for Fing are specified as guiding causes of the act of Fing.

Under this broad theoretical umbrella, single-factor or multifactorial explanations of everything from motor skills to the rise and collapse of civilizations are giving way to systemic explanations in which outcomes are seen as emergents of self-organizing processes among lower-order components.

For example, difficulties may arise from visual explanations in which phenomena are represented with "deceptive clarity" (Tasker and Dalton, 2006; Harris et al., 2009; Linn et al., 2010).

Like Poe's, Dick's last big book was a work of cosmic explanation in which lightning bolts of brilliance flash over salty oceans of insanity.

Quite what it involved is uncertain, but in 1821 he produced an eloquent "Explanation" in which, he wrote, "it is as impossible for it to stand still as it is for a bird to fly without wings".

Carroll favours a bottom-up explanation in which time emerges from small-scale quantum interactions, but declares himself "entirely agnostic" about Smolin's competing suggestion that time is more universal and fundamental.

For Lévi-Strauss, totemism is therefore an "illusion" and a "logic that classifies"—a post hoc explanation in which the structure of social relations is projected onto the natural phenomena, not taken from it.

I watched the cops' faces, impassive and severe, while Camilo rattled off a disjointed explanation in which he talked about me and my shyness, and how it was necessary to teach me this lesson so that I could, he told them, grow.