The phrase "explanatory claims" is grammatically correct and can be used in written English.
It refers to statements or assertions that provide an explanation or justification for something. Example: The author made several explanatory claims in their research paper, supporting their argument with evidence from various studies.
But they do not commit to causal or explanatory claims.
Advocates of the neutral approach may respond by pointing out that explanatory claims have a variety of syntactic forms.
Those who embrace the restriction to facts may do so on the basis of the grammar of explanatory claims.
Alison Wylie has developed the Consilience Model of Confirmation through analysis of many cases showing how archaeologists in fact judge the relative credibility of evidential and explanatory claims.
We introduce the three cases, critically discuss the (liberal) convergence thesis and its descriptive and explanatory claims, and explain why studying the Scandinavian welfare states can further our understanding of the nature of the civic turn and its driving forces.
As we will see, though the two sets of issues are distinct, the scientific explanatory projects raise potential challenges for certain philosophical views, and at the same time attention to philosophical issues raises doubts about some of the explanatory claims made in the name of science, which often rely on controversial philosophical assumptions.
Railton (1981) suggests that an explanatory claim provides information about an underlying ideal text if the former reduces uncertainty about some of the properties of the text, in the sense of ruling in or out various possibilities concerning its structure.
Each identified problem leads us away from clear explanatory causal claims and can even point to serious concerns about our ability to make descriptive causal claims.
Thus, an improver who tells us that "Introducing a new guideline on care of urinary tract infections will reduce the rate of infection" is making a (causal) theoretical claim; she is making a different (explanatory) theoretical claim when she adds that "the guideline will do this by describing and justifying to practitioners the correct standards of care".
Another version of EC that features explanatory relations and claims is John Greco's (2003, 2008, 2009).
And they can hardly take these notions as primitive, since it would then be very unclear what explanatory value the claim that propositions are structured could have.
