Sentence examples for explanatory role for from inspiring English sources
The sketch is blank: no evidence for an explanatory role for cultural group selection.
This distinction played an essential explanatory role for Everett.
For example, a functionalist could settle for a weaker, explanatory role for functional properties, leaving causal efficacy to the realizers of functional states (§6.4; see, e.g., Segal 2009; compare Block 1990).
There are interpreters of Aristotle who think that this kind of irreducibility is all that Aristotle means or needs to mean by postulating an explanatory role for substantial form.
One thought here is that genuine explanations require laws, and mental anomalism, in ruling out psychological and psychophysical laws, cannot account for any explanatory role for mental properties vis a vis physical or mental events.
Recognition of an irreducible explanatory role for reasons, and mental properties generally, as expressed in the dual explananda strategy, does not by itself fully do away with epiphenomenalist concerns.
Breaking things down further, we can recognize two causal roles for genes, and hence two potential explanatory roles for genetic information, within biology.
Rather, we infer bridge-laws from the discovery of relevant similarities between the two theories (for the explanatory role of bridge-laws and identity statements, see also Marras (2005: 351) and Block & Stalnaker (1999: 28)).
Moreover, precisely because we have introduced the conjunction "because" as an explanatory conjunction, it may be felt that it is not well-suited to the ontological role now being devised for it (for one of the many recent attempts to specify the explanatory role of "because", see deRosset 2013).
Rosenberg, A, On the Explanatory Role of Existence Proofs, Ethics, vol. 97 (1986), pp. 177-186.
