Sentence examples for requests for explanation from inspiring English sources

(See Kitcher & Salmon 1987 for the view that even if requests for explanation are contextually delimited, what counts as a good / relevant explanation depends also on non-contextual factors).

With regard to explanation, the constructive empiricist recognizes that scientific realists typically attach an objective validity to requests for explanation (van Fraassen 1980, 13), but he does not grant that objective validity.

In consultation G, despite the clinician's repeated attempts to speak directly to the patient, the conversation is sidetracked several times by the son's requests for explanation.

For example, if the patient wishes to receive the result by SMS, the mobile phone number can be confirmed at the point of ordering; subsequent actions, contingent on the result, can also be agreed at this point, and patients can be provided information on the implications of the result, providing reassurance and reducing requests for explanation from unqualified staff downstream.

But philosophers interested in the logic of questions will draw attention to the role of emphasis in framing requests for explanations.

Now, three days after its sudden announcement, several vendors are waiting anxiously for their final invoice checks, and say they weren't notified of Munchery's end, nor has the business responded to persistent requests for explanations.

In other words, they were not simply requests for clarification or confirmation, but requests for explanations or opinions about important strategic decisions to be made by the group ('What do you think about the beets?').

This takes the form of requests for explanations of judgements (e.g. 'Why do you think I'm Level III at my ability to Solve Problems on Difference Quotient?' (Van Labeke et al. 2007).

Any request for explanations is met with beatings.

(Mr. Elkins has not responded to requests for further explanation).

Its former chief executive, Norman Gene Eason, did not respond to numerous requests for an explanation.