Sentence examples for putative explanations from inspiring English sources

The term is insufficiently clear, and putative explanations which employ it are in fact unexplanatory.

On the one hand, there are generalizations and associated putative explanations (like the generalization relating barometric pressure to the occurrence of storms and the generalization relating the hexing of salt to its dissolution in water) that are not explanatory at all; they fall below the threshold of explanatoriness.

Yet another class of examples that raise problems for the CM model involves putative explanations of the behavior of complex or "higher level" systems explanations that do not explicitly cite spatio-temporally continuous causal processes involving transfer of energy and momentum, even though we may think that such processes are at work at a more "underlying" level.

The frequency of XMRV detection varies from 0 23% in the case of prostate cancer [1], [2], [4] [6] and 0 67% in PBMCs from CFS patients [3], [7] [9], putative explanations for the observed discrepancies are geographical localization of the virus or (more likely) detection methods used.

Putative explanations include unsuitable regulation and inadequate transport [ 31].

There are several putative explanations for this phenomenon.

And since the discovery of the body's natural opiates -- endorphins and enkephalins -- we've had a putative explanation.

Further study finds that internal capsule (IC) cells are greatly reduced in Lhx2 mutants, which is a putative explanation for the misrouted TC axons.

A putative explanation is that by limiting the sample to persons who were healthy prior to 2002, we excluded unhealthy persons who exhibited a stronger PTSD-heart disease association.

Instead, he thinks he can argue forcefully for the four causes as real explanatory factors, that is, as features which must be cited not merely because they make for satisfying explanations, but because they are genuinely operative causal factors, the omission of which renders any putative explanation objectively incomplete and so inadequate.

Another putative explanation is that the deregulation that miRNAs undergo in cancer is a complex process.