Sentence examples for explanatory foundation from inspiring English sources

Kitcher holds that races exist biologically not in the sense that genes provide an explanatory foundation for racial groups but in the sense that one can define races as "breeding populations" and track the historical development of traits.

Exploring the question of whether a transcendent intelligence of some sort might be a better explanatory foundation for the world that we encounter than a purely mindless materialism is not a religious quest in any traditional sense.

Despite Nishida's relative ignorance of modern logic and his identification of predicates with universals, we may also find parallels to his logic of place in mathematical logic: an axiomatic system is a topos that, according to Gödel's theorem, is not self-explanatory or self-generating since it contains undecidable propositions, and there is no final system with a self-explanatory foundation.

The principle may, therefore, bear positive explanatory power by laying the foundation on how agencies have been and will be designed.

I follow especially the argument by Piekkari et al. (2009) that these approaches contain a broad spectrum of methodological foundations of exploratory, explanatory, interpretivist, and critical/reflexive designs.

The combination of an established implementation framework and robust explanatory model will provide a strong foundation for process evaluation of the trial.

One of philosophy's central tasks has always been to probe the foundations and relations between explanatory frameworks.

Theoretical, conceptual and methodological choices must be framed in relation to concrete explanatory and interpretive dilemmas, not ontological foundations.

Because the model has both predictive and explanatory power it will serve as a foundation for future mathematical and experimental studies of this important signaling network.

Because it has both predictive and explanatory power this model can serve as a foundation for future mathematical and experimental explorations of cAMP signaling.

The point here is that relations of similarity between two particulars cannot be self-explanatory; they must have some explanation (some "real foundation") in the things that are similar.