Sentence examples for explanatory practice from inspiring English sources
Baker (1993) and Burge (1986 , 1993 argue that much valid explanatory practice in the special sciences shows that this assumption is simply not acceptable.
This appeal to explanatory practice has the potential to answer in one fell swoop all four of the property-based problems we've considered.
Ideally, such models would reveal commonalities across disciplines but they should also enable us to see why explanatory practice varies as it does across different disciplines and the significance of such variation.
In response to this objection, one could distinguish between reconstructions that favour one particular notion of natural selection, coupled to a particular explanatory practice, and those that are more liberal.
In doing so, we aim to produce an explanatory practice model to help clinicians meet the palliative and end of life care needs of patients and families through the integration of palliative care within acute stroke services.
The transitivity of causation fits with some of our explanatory practices.
If the structure of the causal order reflects these explanatory practices, mental properties need not be threatened by exclusion.
Entrenched explanatory practices trump any abstract metaphysical principles with which they might conflict (see also §§6.3, 7.5).
Sometimes the descriptive and explanatory practices of the sciences are successful precisely because they intentionally ignore aspects of natural phenomena or use a variety of approximation techniques.
The distinction between actions and events, far from being a distinction between inner psychological processes and outer bodily movements, is a distinction between the explanatory practices of different sciences.
Thus, for example, it is the task of a philosophy of history to reflect on the explanatory practices of historians and to tease out the fundamental assumptions that govern them.
