Sentence examples for explanatory stance from inspiring English sources

Moreover, at one point, Stirner explicitly considers adopting the explanatory stance of psychological egoism only to reject it.

These ideas are also applied to a causal analysis of rational action: by adopting an explanatory stance, one can characterize action through descriptions that refer to causal connections between mental states and actions.

We state that a comprehensive GIS perspective is instrumental for developing a more explanatory stance in the innovation system literature and developing policy interventions that reflect the increasing spatial complexity in the innovation process.

Social evolution theory typically employs an externalist explanatory stance.

We began this paper by characterising social evolution theory as primarily employing an externalist explanatory stance.

Social evolution theory conventionally takes an externalist explanatory stance, treating observed cooperation as explanandum and the positive assortment of cooperative behaviour as explanans.

These differing explanatory stances also had downstream consequences such that people preferred a more "biological" intervention (medication) for treating disorders when described abstractly than when described in terms of a concrete case (Experiment 3).

The reader might be tempted to object that there is no principled distinction between heuristic-based and explanation-based agent tracking because both are likely triggered by explanatory stances, and run by simulation or reasoning.

Because recognition-based tracking alone is not sufficient to fulfil the task demands of agent-individualisation, the tracker may opt to engage in explanatory stances (i.e., strategies of enquiry; see Dennett 1987; Keil 2006) in order to better individualise the target by becoming sensitive to the target's unobservable causal history and mechanisms (see Figs.  2, 3).

Amundson (1988, 1990) claims that explanatory adaptationism is a stance about the natural world and the products of scientific inquiry, instead of being a view about biology or how best to do science.

Another example has been Daniel Dennett (1987), according to whom the intentional stance is merely a useful predictive heuristic with no explanatory import.