Sentence examples for explanatory question from inspiring English sources

Rightfully proud, Federer tends to bristle when the subject is raised, countering with the fair (if not explanatory) question of how a French Open and Wimbledon finalist could be considered to be in free fall.

Wasserman (forthcoming) argues that we often conflate the ontological question whether things have temporal parts with the explanatory question whether things persist in virtue of having those parts.

What I defend is a Very Boring Hypothesis: depending on the representational phenomenon and the explanatory question, different aspects might be important, and it is difficult to say a priori which ones these might be.

Which events in that net are picked out as "the" cause(s) of some event-to-be-explained depend upon the interests of the individuals asking the explanatory question (1980, 124 126).

This stratum of patients addresses a much more explanatory question as their entry to the trial will be strictly defined on pathological grounds.

Each instrument consisted of an explanatory question followed by a set of drawings showing straight alignment, then two each at 7.5° angulation and 15° angulation in the varus/valgus (knee) and inward/outward (foot) directions.

QUESTION FROM BRYAN: Do you think it would be more productive in speaking with skeptics to separate the normative questions of what should be done from the factual and explanatory questions of what's happening and why?

Consisting of descriptive or explanatory questions, surveys can support the incorporation of medical evidence in current patient care.

And indeed justifying reasons can apply to actions that are not performed at all and for which explanatory questions consequently fail even to arise (cf. Woods 1972, 189).

Most other studies involved headache questionnaires and telephone interviews, which might have been inadequate for subjects to remember headaches or ask explanatory questions [13, 19, 25, 26].

Genome reference sequences are descriptive because they are "constructed largely without motivation by hypotheses to be tested or traditional explanatory questions" but rather as preliminary to such work (Ankeny 2000, p. S267).