Until we are given an explanation of why this kind of enhancement is problematic (and it couldn't be problematic because it threatens, say, openness to the unbidden), it is hard to take these worries as presenting any kind of general argument against biomedical enhancement.
Midwives were given an explanation of the study and were asked to give written consent.
If less than 30 days advance notice is being given, an explanation must be provided.
I have not been given an explanation why he did it.
She was given an explanation.
She was given an explanation," he said.
She was given an explanation," McConnell said later.
She was given an explanation," McConnell said about Warren reading the letter.
For instance, if we ask ourselves, "Why did John switch the TV on?" And we respond, "To watch his favorite program," we are giving a teleological explanation.
"As an international NGO that works on transparent principles, we're gobsmacked, we don't understand the reasons for it happening, we haven't been given an adequate explanation," Madden told the Independent.
Similarly, if we are told today that a mouse is a survival-machine, or that it has been programmed to act as it does, we may well feel that we have been given a substantial explanation, when all we have really got is one more optional imaginative vision – "you can try looking at it this way".
