Sentence examples for more general explanatory from inspiring English sources

Zhu Xi had a "particularistic" tendency to investigate each phenomenon on its own terms, without attempting to relate it to more general explanatory principles, as in his treatment of inertia and the relativity of motion.

Finally, the legal/non-legal demarcation in empirical social science usually reflects more general explanatory premises about the psycho-social factors that account for behavior, well beyond the realm of the legal.

As I've discussed, I think we can frame natural selection as a productive theory, if we're careful, but I also argue later in this essay that an alternative "generalized sexual selection" theory may offer a more general and explanatory theory of evolution.

(See Bechtel and Richardson 1993 for more details on this general explanatory strategy).

Thus the preference for quantitatively parsimonious hypotheses emerges as one facet of a more general preference for hypotheses with greater explanatory power.

While this undermines global attempts at reductively relating classical genetics and molecular genetics, and modulates how to understand local explanatory reductions, its more general impact can be understood as a caution against presuming that two areas of biology are distinct in practice or distinguishable in principle (as is often done in theory reduction).

Theory is generated interpretively by arranging the categories to propose a general explanatory account.

More recently, Jaegwon Kim [1989] has revived this issue in a more general way, seeing the two modes of explanation as joint instances of a Principle of Explanatory Exclusion.

Because the MU can be applied to the same data but testing different explanatory factors, it can quantify how each explanatory factor partitions the same morphospace defined by a given variable (here RWs) or set of variables outlining more general morphospace.

However, the threat is rather more general.

But the more general trend is resignation.