Sentence examples for explanatory accounts from inspiring English sources

We look to fiction for images of reality — real life rendered as vicarious experience, with a circumstantial intimacy that more factual, explanatory accounts cannot quite supply.

By John Updike We look to fiction for images of reality — real life rendered as vicarious experience, with a circumstantial intimacy that more factual, explanatory accounts cannot quite supply.

Either ontological account will have important implications for explanatory accounts of Chinese grammar.

Such explanatory accounts, however, do not justify the loyalties we form or may be inclined to form.

We thus suggest a shift from explanatory accounts of system processes to prospective processes for systems of action within social ecologies of change.

Some Methodological Naturalists want to do away with normative justification theories and to replace them with empirical and descriptive explanatory accounts.

(For a more modest and explanatory account of Detroit's demise, there is Paul Clemens's 2011 book, "Punching Out: One Year in a Closing Auto Plant").

And how are the probability distributions themselves to receive an explanatory account?

They view game theory as providing an explanatory account of strategic reasoning.

But it is not clear what any such explanatory account shows.

His considered view appears to be that materialists have a plausible explanatory account for certain kinds of human behaviour, but that they slide from this plausible explanatory account to problematic normative claims.