Sentence examples for temptation to explain the from inspiring English sources

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Once this difference between "knowing that" and "knowing how" is acknowledged, according to Ryle, there is no temptation to explain the behaviour by looking for a private internal knowledge of facts.

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Temptation to explain this example by resorting to folk psychology concepts such as associationism must be rejected.

The book avoids the temptation to explain everything away, leaving some large unanswered questions.

Resist the temptation to explain your answers or to go into details, although the polygrapher may try to get you to do so.

The Dissent of Man: Surveying a recent crop of books on evolutionary psychology for The New Yorker, Anthony Gottlieb wonders why, at a time when "biologists tend to be cautious about labelling any trait an evolutionary adaptation" in other species, we find it so difficult to resist the temptation to explain our own human nature with "just-so stories".

So strong is the temptation to explain our minds by evolutionary "Just So Stories," Stephen Jay Gould argued in 1978, that a lack of hard evidence for them is frequently overlooked (his may well have been the first pejorative use of Kipling's term).

There is always a temptation to explain away theft in such instances as one of the final acts of desperation.

It is an idea that ran throughout Amis's attempts in Experience to explain the dreadful temptation of adults - and not only paedophiles - to destroy in children the purity they have lost in themselves, as if the only way they would know how truly fragile something was would be to crush it.

That is why he has kept so quiet during an eventful August and why, despite the encouragement of his admirers, he will resist the temptation to start explaining what a Brown administration would look like.The chancellor's more naive supporters yearn for him to demonstrate the ways in which he will differ from Mr Blair.

Upon first recognizing that every trait needs an evolutionary explanation, the temptation to try to explain diseases directly is nearly irresistible.

There may be a temptation in practice to explain illness entirely in pharmacological and biochemical terms.

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