Sentences with phrase «coherent explanation for»

The government has given no coherent explanation for denying a child the right to live safely with relatives, who could provide the same continuity of care that foster for adoption aims to achieve.

Please prove me wrong by providing a coherent explanation for your words.

What is there is a coherent explanation for the increase in global ocean heat content since the mid-C20th.

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A theory, in the scientific sense, is «a coherent group of general propositions used as principles of explanation for a class of phenomena» [Random House American College Dictionary].

Few states have ever provided a more cogent explanation for any public policy, and none has ever furnished a more coherent defense of the ban against assisted suicide.

A theory used in the scientific sense is «a coherent group of general propositions used as principles of explanation for a class of phenomena.»

The difference between a metaphor and a model can be expressed in a number of ways, but most simply, a model is a metaphor with «staying power,» that is, a model is a metaphor that has gained sufficient stability and scope so as to present a pattern for relatively comprehensive and coherent explanation.15 The metaphor of God the father is an excellent example of this.

A coherent group of tested general propositions, commonly regarded as correct, that can be used as principles of explanation and prediction for a class of phenomena:

Theory - a coherent group of tested general propositions, commonly regarded as correct, that can be used as principles of explanation and prediction for a class of phenomena.

An actual entity can now be described under the aspect of emerging [werdenden] coherence: insofar as such an entity is an emergence of a unified connectedness of coherent factors from incoherent elements, it is the emergence of a totality of meaning whose inner factors have significance only within this whole: «An entity is actual, when it has significance for itself» (PR 38: 21st Category of Explanation).

«a coherent group of tested general propositions, commonly regarded as correct, that can be used as principles of explanation and prediction for a class of phenomena: Einstein's theory of relativity.

Another important strength of Whitehead's solution to the problem of evil is that he provides a coherent explanation of the nature of good and evil and accounts for their production.

And this is said pejoratively neither of metaphysics nor of science, since the quest for coherent explanation is intrinsic to the nature and dignity of human reason itself.

@ Luis Enrique (and a bit @ Thomas): A conception of what political philosophy does might be something like: attempts to systematize political structures, in order both to provide as coherent an explanation as possible of our current intuitions, and extrapolate from them to prescriptions for how they might be improved / made more consistent.

Maybe I spread out my explanation between too many different replies that happened at different times for it to be coherent.

c) Hypotheses get more consistent and coherent, and in this case tend to do away with «climate has changed naturally for millenia before the industrial revolution» as a sole explanation.

I don't care if you don't believe me, I'm not looking for your belief, I do care that you're not taking on board that I have presented a coherent explanation which you and generic you continue to ignore even though I have given you A NASA PAGE which says the same thing!

Much as I would welcome a cogent explanation for the widespread, but only spottily coherent, multi-decadal variations, Wyatt's «stadium wave» conjecture doesn't provide such.

Josh Willis explanation that extra warming was going down in the deep ocean is unsupportable because sea level data are essentialy coherent with ARGO ocean temperature: no temperature increase for ARGO (that is the most extensive way we are measuring ocean temperature), no sea level increase.