Sentence examples for history explanations from inspiring English sources
But one idea is very clear; at least some mental illnesses are natural kinds, and natural history explanations work by "invoking natural kinds" (2007, 47).
Cooper suggests (174n2) that natural history explanations provide us with what Murphy (2006) calls causal discrimination, as opposed to causal understanding.
In particular, natural history explanations fit a conception of diseases as syndromes unfolding over time that is enshrined in both DSM-IV-TR and the minimal construal of the medical model.
This picture of disease naturally goes along with the employment of natural history explanations, since they too invoke natural kinds without worrying about the mechanisms that explain the behaviour of members of the kind.
Natural history explanations fit Thagard's disease network nicely; if a disease network provides a narrative account of why people get ill, and predicts some outcomes, we can see it as a graphical representation of the historical pathway typical of a kind.
Her stories are moments that have no narrative sequence; they defy and undo history, explanation and theory.
Cooper argues that a natural history explanation needs to cite natural kinds if it is to be helpful.
Men at all ages have a higher mortality than women (Office for National Statistics 2006), and the life history explanation for this phenomenon has been extensively discussed (Kruger and Nesse 2006).
This approach was seconded, in its geographic absolutism, by other pre-First World War space-history explanations.
The distinction between sexual selection and life-history explanations becomes especially important when male fertilization success is correlated with sex traits that also show age-dependent expression, which is in fact quite common (Manning 1985; Andersson 1994).
I hope that my father will continue to respect the law, and that the law may also respect the facts, and leave the people an explanation, leave history an explanation, and leave his son an explanation too.
