Nancy Meyer, a social worker who attended the 2007 presentation, described it as a scholarly explanation of why "Muslims should not be in a position to harm other Muslims," saying she did not take it as "at all threatening".
He added: "If you ask him why he made a particular interpretive choice, he'll give you a scholarly, reasoned explanation.
A colleague in the accounting department gave them a careful, scholarly, even-handed explanation of how firms' decisions on the repricing of assets in their portfolio could perhaps have been used, perhaps unintentionally, to create false expectations in the marketplace, and could have been done in a way undetectable to auditors, leading to over-investment in toxic subprime assets.
One philosophical school, logical positivism (also called logical empiricism), held that all other scholarly disciplines should offer explanations like those of physics, the most advanced (and mathematicized) science.
At a 1986 gathering of Joyceans in Copenhagen, he explained that "Dubliners" and "A Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man" can be "picked up, read, and enjoyed by virtually anybody without scholarly guides, theories, and intricate explanations, as can 'Ulysses,' if you forget about all the hue and cry".
The endnote lists nine scholarly articles, with no further explanation given.
The explanatory argument starts with this scholarly consensus and contends that all alternative explanations for these facts are inferior to the explanation that Jesus actually did rise from the dead.
Qamar rejected this explanation, however, saying even scholarly interpretations "come from very gendered perspectives of probably male scholars".
Geographers are—or should be trained to see and describe: they are writers, historians and their primary task is explanation.1 In this respect, their scholarly approach is similar to the study of history.
In this article, I compare Michel Foucault's (1994) author-function and Anis Bawarshi's (2000) genre function as explanations for the use, categorization, and value of scholarly webtexts.
