Also, the history and phenomenology of religion tend to raise essentially philosophical questions of explanation, where the issues are often debatable.
Yet, as a key player, it is inevitable that his account should in places read more like heroic than academic history, the harder questions of explanation and justification going unanswered.
One possibility is to understand theoretical reflection as reasoning about questions of explanation and prediction.
The training took the form of classroom lectures on the objectives of the research, a question-by-question explanation of the content of the topic guides, instructions on field and interviewing procedures to be followed, and instructions on how to ask sensitive questions.
A more interesting answer to the above question of how explanation is to guide one's choice of priors has been given by Jonathan Weisberg (2009).
32, 33 Another result may shed light on the question of which explanation best fits the puzzling differences in patterns of condom use between males and females.
This work highlights the necessity of reflecting upon the question of teleological explanations in biology and the nature of the NSM.
The second research question concerned the role of how questions and tentativeness of explanation in sustaining group engagement towards high-level content co-regulation episodes.
Globally, the logistic regression identified predictors of high-content co-regulation episodes in how questions, tentativeness of explanations and monitoring, which also emerged through the Mann–Whitney test, Chi square tests and Spearman's non-parametric correlations.
Van Fraassen's theory is thus an erotetic (i.e., question-theoretic) theory of explanation, as opposed to an account of why-questions in terms of explanation.
