Sentence examples for explanatory usefulness from inspiring English sources

As indicated above, he accepted Descartes' general objections to the intelligibility and explanatory usefulness of substantial forms.

The current consensus among philosophers of biology is that heritability analyses are misleading about the genetic causes of human traits but Pearson (2007) provides a cautious defense of the explanatory usefulness of heritability analyses.

Unlike in Steane's 'classical parallelism' examples, worlds on the MWI are defined by their explanatory usefulness, manifested in particular by their stability and independence over the time scales relevant to the computation.

The Macdonalds (1995) hold, as Campbell does, that (1) mental events are causally efficacious by virtue of being identical with physical events, and that (2) despite the anomalous nature of reason explanations, they capture distinctive patterns that account for their explanatory usefulness.

So, continues the scientific realist, the constructive empiricist cannot admit the usefulness of explanatory power to the scientist without also regarding the scientist as taking her theories to be true.

The two spatial regression models were consistent in both the performance statistics and the selection of significant explanatory variables, thus confirming the usefulness and reliability of spatial regression in modeling urban land patterns.

42 We have developed an explanatory document to increase the usefulness of PRISMA.

Explanatory journalism site Vox uses explainer cards.

The TDF has proved useful across a number of healthcare systems and for stronger explanatory and predictive power, and therefore increased usefulness in informing interventions to improve implementation and bring about other behaviour change.

Our research found that design aesthetics did significantly impact website characteristics component, especially customization, perceived usefulness and ease of use, all of which were ultimately shown to have significant explanatory power in affecting customer trust.

This research focused on developing a general health report that conveys an individual's health readings in a clear, concise and explanatory manner and demonstrating the report's usefulness.