Sentence examples for explanatory aims from inspiring English sources

However, as Simon Stern warns, the "satisfaction created by a fitting conclusion can beguile us into crediting a story, leading us to accept too readily that it has achieved its explanatory aims". For decades after Russell Hardin crafted a narrative about the "tragedy of the commons," economists cited it as a rationale for imposing private property rights.

This difference in explanatory aims leads to different interpretations of the 2D framework.

It does not seem to follow that science is a purely historical concept with no essential connection to explanatory aims.

Instead, new periodizations are constructed and used alongside the existing ones because different idealizations involve different judgments of typicality that serve diverse descriptive and explanatory aims.

This view of realization comports with the explanatory aims of the special sciences and fits nicely with the evidential base on which interlevel claims are grounded (see Aizawa and Gillett 2011).

Besides those already discussed, the moderate pluralism associated with Robert Brandon and Brent Mischler or the more radical pluralism defended by Philip Kitcher, argues that different explanatory aims within the biological sciences will require different criteria for determining whether a group constitutes a species.

Indeed the normative nature of the project dominates any explanatory aim.

That such an account does not, without additional assumptions, explain why one should expect one's measurement records to exhibit the standard quantum statistics in a world directly described by pure wave mechanics is a weakness of the account, but, arguably, one that need not have worried Everett given the relatively modest explanatory aim of empirical faithfulness.

Although their explanatory aim is much the same as that of works of evolution by example to explain the theory of evolution their strategy is different: They present general claims, recruiting examples only occasionally, and treating them in far less detail than they would be treated by a work of evolution by example.

Approaches to developing explanatory theories aimed at addressing specific empirical questions in contemporary sociology.

In addition, to aid understanding and introduce the main results of each paper, the authors provide a one-page summary of each paper, with an explanatory figure aimed at the general reader.