And what often goes hand in hand with the explanation objection, in either form, is the view that the sciences more generally are inadequate to the task of predicting, explaining, or otherwise accounting for the mental life of present-day human beings.
On the other hand, maybe the explanation is post-industrial boredom: We sit all day and all night in a virtual world, clicking here and mousing there, and some residual part of us yearns for bodily experiences, experiences that cannot be undone with a command-Z.
On the other hand, the scientific explanation that viruses are fragments of self-replicating biological material that evolve with complete indifference to our well-being makes complete sense -- and reinforces the lesson that our well-being is in our own hands.
On the other hand, the second explanation is in good agreement with the results of a recent meta-analysis showing that a HI titre of 32 corresponds to less than 50% reduction in the risk of contracting influenza whereas it takes a titre of ≥100 to decrease this risk to 10% (Coudeville et al., 2010).
Yes, she went on, haltingly, handing me the explanation she had withheld for decades, or perhaps it had been locked inside her and she lacked the key: "I saw you and your father as a team, and I was on the outs.
On the one hand those explanations often label the patients with irreversible diagnoses.
On the other hand, according to the explanation based on extension of judged arm length there should be an effect on the touching trials.
On the other hand, the most obvious explanation for passive trends involving one-sided expansions in variance is some form of constraint, perhaps internal and nonadaptive in nature.
And the enthusiasts of the Tea Party, who did not deserve the debt-ceiling victory Obama handed them, do deserve the explanation that he has denied them.
