Sentence examples for serves as an explanation of from inspiring English sources

First there is the generation of a hypothesis which serves as an explanation of the experience or an endorsement of the content of the experience.

As a central unifying theory, it serves as an explanation of similarities among organisms, biological diversity, and many characteristics of the physical world which are among the most basic characteristics of Earth (National Academy of Sciences 1998).

Ayn Rand is mentioned by name a few times in Illuminatus!, and her novel is alluded to by Hagbard who says, "If Atlas can Shrug and Telemachus can Sneeze, why can't Satan Repent?" Rand is also disparaged in one of the appendices concerning property, ostensibly written by Hagbard, which serves as an explanation of anarchist Pierre-Joseph Proudhon's views on the subject.

A combination of factors serves as an explanation for participation of some Lithuanians in genocide against Jews.

In Henri Bergson's theory of laughter, this dualism of subtle mind and inert matter he calls it "the mechanical encrusted on the living"—is made to serve as an explanation of all varieties of the comic.

The IPO discussion also served as an explanation of sorts for his firm Andreessen Horowitz's large investments (most recently a $100 million round for GitHub).

This means that when an entity moves or is at rest according to its nature reference to its nature may serve as an explanation of the event.

For sure it served as an explanation of why he often didn't come on the day of the appointment: He was busy driving around collecting his tools.

Those who met Coleridge in his later life, it is true, were inclined to find his conversation arrestingly one-sided, but this will hardly serve as an explanation of what is happening here".

The Chinese often believe that human beings are shaped by the land around them and such distinct geography may serve as an explanation of these irregular relationships.

The works of Roessler et al. and Hinghofer-Szalkay et al. indicate furthermore that during orthostatic challenge aldosterone is rather controlled by adrenocorticotropic hormone (ACTH) than by renin, which may serve as an explanation of the dissociated aldosterone renin response in parabolic flight.