Sentence examples for of explanatory priority from inspiring English sources

What's distinctive about interpretationism is the direction of explanatory priority.

Here Aristotle completes his theory of causality by arguing for the explanatory priority of the final cause over the efficient cause.

Aristotle further elaborates on causality in the rest of Physics II and in Parts of Animals I. Aristotle explores the systematic interrelations among the four modes of causality and argues for the explanatory priority of the final cause.

But the explanatory priority of reasons over motivation can also yield a nontrivial version of internalism.

(For further information about the explanatory priority of the final over the efficient cause, see Code 1997, pp. 127 143).

These latter views leave open the possibility that the content of an experience enjoys explanatory priority over its phenomenology, so that one can explain phenomenology in terms of content.

Interestingly, the Macdonalds' later requirement of "reliable" (as opposed to exceptionless) relations is suggestive of a ceteris paribus conception of supervenience, which we earlier saw as an unexplored and potentially fruitful direction to take in trying to square Anomalous Monism with an explanatory priority of the physical through the supervenience relation.

However, it is held that atomic number has explanatory priority: the number of protons in the nucleus, and hence the nuclear charge, explains the structure of electrons surrounding the nucleus, which, in turn, explains the chemical behaviour of the element.

A consequence of the thesis is that phenomenology enjoys explanatory priority over intentionality.

Both the economic structure and the development of the productive forces seem to have explanatory priority over each other.

According to Horgan and Tienson 2002, for example, there is a kind of content that experiences have in virtue of their phenomenology, so that their phenomenology has explanatory priority over the content itself.