Sentence examples for superior explanation from inspiring English sources

As Maguire notes, "simply pointing out that a belief existed before science came along with a vastly superior explanation is not an argument to disbelieve the science".

The stability of inflation may be down to well-anchored inflation expectations, but this is ex-post reasoning; it's not an unambiguously superior explanation than reduced potential.I disagree.

An explanatory coherentist would say that, compared with these, the hat's actual blueness is a superior explanation.

In a few instances, further study found that one or more alternatives to competition provided a superior explanation (Grant 1975; Gorbushin 1996).

He begins by attacking Putnam's (1967) "objective" account of superior explanation, namely that one explanation is superior to another if the former is more general.

I think James Fearon will probably have the superior explanation.

According to Putnam, superior explanations "bring out the relevant laws".

And yet the former is generally regarded as being superior, qua explanation, to the latter.

How reason is superior needs explanation, and rationalists have offered different accounts.

In the volume Unweaving the Rainbow (1998), Dawkins contended that evolutionary theory is aesthetically superior to supernatural explanations of the world.

Some will see Darwinian evolution as failing condition (a), (b) and/or (c), claiming that Darwinian evolution is not explanatorily adequate to selected α's, is inadequately supported by the evidence, and is far from superior to agency explanations of relevant phenomena.