Sentence examples for this sort of explanatory from inspiring English sources

(Craig 2008: 233) This sort of explanatory argument may be contested in at least five ways, a number of which have been explored.

Part of Griffin's concern is that such a thesis would not do the sort of explanatory work made possible by bolder theses.

However, none of these reasons motivates the sort of explanatory relation between physical and mental properties expressed in the supervenience claim (indeed, Davidson 1970, 214 describes these features of the physical as 'bland' and not indicative of any significant ontological bias towards the physical).

For example, it would still be a matter of dispute whether there are mental representations and whether they can do the sorts of explanatory work that proponents of RTM require of them or whether these explanatory roles provide the most important or coherent cluster of roles associated with the term "concept".

The idea is straightforward enough: take a real-life scene, or (better) a video of a scene, and add some sort of explanatory data to it so that you can better understand what's going on, or who the people in the scene are, or how to get to where you want to go.

However, stipulation does not have the right sort of explanatory power.

At the outset, we can assume that if grounding were to be understood as a type of ontological dependence, it would be some sort of explanatory dependence.

However, virtue reliabilists typically understand knowledge as involving some sort of explanatory relation between having a true belief and the exercise of an epistemic competence.

On the other hand, worries about the explanatory role truth plays in truth-conditional theories of meaning can only be evaluated if we know, first, what sort of explanatory role truth plays in such theories, and, second, what sort of explanatory roles are ruled out by deflationism.

It is uncontroversial that explanatory practice what is accepted as an explanation, how explanatory goals interact with others, what sort of explanatory information is thought to be achievable, discoverable, testable etc.—varies in significant ways across different disciplines.

Lumley and Scott [5] state in the abstract of their paper, "Data from complex surveys are being used increasingly to build the same sort of explanatory and predictive models used in the rest of statistics".