If you are unfamiliar with this particular style of deceit, which is surely the 21st century's greatest survival skill, let me pretend to explain.
"The results were such a jolt to the Conventional Wisdom," Hunter S. Thompson wrote, "that now — with a cold gray dawn bloating out of Lake Michigan and Hubert Humphrey still howling in his sleep despite the sedatives in his room directly above us — there is nobody in Milwaukee this morning, including me, who can even pretend to explain what really went down last night".
He does not pretend to explain it, but we can be grateful that he shows up the pretensions of those who think they can, and who reduce the glory of being human to brain circuitry and the survival tactics of early hominids.
"The results were such a jolt to the Conventional Wisdom," Hunter S. Thompson wrote, "that now with a cold gray dawn bloating out of Lake Michigan and Hubert Humphrey still howling in his sleep despite the sedatives in his room directly above us there is nobody in Milwaukee this morning, including me, who can even pretend to explain what really went down last night".
Different proposals of elemental models to get analytical expressions of energy of Si-nC are found in the literature, which pretend to explain correctly the energy spectrum of this type of nanostructures.
Without sufficient constraints on the architecture, it is too easy to pretend to explain cognitive phenomena by merely redescribing them in a story written in the vocabulary of prediction, comparison, error minimization, and optimized precison.
It seems as if La Forge has breached the fundamental Cartesian prohibition, that one not pretend to explain something that is not understood by means of something else that is even less well understood.
Our work does not pretend to explain the conflicting data about oxidants and activation of NF-κB; however, it points to an important role of the mitochondria-generated ROS in TNF-dependent activation of NF-κB and the inflammatory response in endothelial cells.
Elsewhere we find illustrative phrases that pretend to explain a word but really speak of Carson's brother: "he lets in night at the eyes and the heart" or "made sadder by the brother's night than by the brother himself".
In pretending, therefore, to explain the principles of human nature, we in effect propose a compleat system of the sciences, built on a foundation almost entirely new, and the only one upon which they can stand with any security" (Treatise, "Introduction").
