Sentence examples for which explanations from inspiring English sources

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In science, debates aren't what decide which explanations best describe natural phenomena.

It is important, however, to understand this particular failure of the idea of unified science, because when scientists (and others) often think about a "theory of everything," they are envisaging a set of principles from which explanations of all natural phenomena may be derived.

Comte's "law of the three stages" maintained that human intellectual development had moved historically from a theological stage, in which the world and human destiny within it were explained in terms of gods and spirits; through a transitional metaphysical stage, in which explanations were in terms of essences, final causes, and other abstractions; and finally to the modern positive stage.

The other activity attempts to provide explanations of scientific laws, which explanations have the "pecularity" that "they often (not always) predict new laws in addition to explaining old ones".

Using this reform as a natural experiment this research looks into how competitive tendering has resulted in different outcomes in different segments of the taxi market and which explanations are best at describing the results.

Our example illustrates what Bhaskar and Danermark characterize as a "laminated" system, in which explanations involve mechanisms at several levels.

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Which explanation is the most persuasive?

Which explanation do you think is correct?

Place your bets on which explanation seems most plausible.1.1

And you may really want to know which explanation fits — in which case, I say: Stop right there!

It may also reflect a glut of saving abroad.Which explanation proves right will be of more than academic interest.

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