Sentences with phrase «kind of explanation»

These are two very different things and they require two very different kinds of explanations.

In accounting for the absolute character of scientific knowledge, hasn't be eliminated the need for any other kind of explanation?

The resume will list out your specifications and other credentials related to your work history and educational background, whereas the cover letter can give the right kind of explanation.

Not that kids can get away with hitting each other, but when adults understand different kinds of explanations for a child's behavior, then there are many more ways to intervene, to help a child feel calm in the body.

The reintegration of science, metaphysics and theology lies in the direction of showing that observation gives rise to questions that science answers, but that these themselves raise questions that call for metaphysical responses, and that these in turn point to a different kind of explanation which, though ultimate, is also personal.

For this reason, consider what kind of explanation you might be able to provide with future homework assignments — for example, why students are being given a particular assignment and how it will help with the overall lesson.

In the original version of his article, Garland characterized the first kind of explanation as «causal explanation» (366a).

The perception of time remains subject indeed to the first - mentioned, most obvious kind of explanation to the extent either that one is dealing with limited, unknown aspects of it, or that one loses one's feel for time, so that its perception can no longer rank as what is best known.

Sonar in bats, eyesight in eagles, sunlight energy capture in plants, and adaptations in general had only one kind of explanation before Darwin: the argument from design.

It would not in itself, however, make him unique, because the same kind of explanation would describe the prophet or mystic.

Indeed, in Raft to the Future I described a possible new kind of explanation for the origin of time that my friend Lee Smolin and I have been considering.)

What kind of explanation is that?

The obvious kind of explanation that we would often think of these days is, well maybe it was some kind of some, sort of, meteor that was suddenly coming down and maybe exploded just above the ground in Siberia.

But if a person happens to stand in the middle of a field or take shelter under this tree during this same thunderstorm and is struck by lightning, many of us suddenly require a very different kind of explanation.

I could wax eloquent about how the story of Genesis is an extended metaphor about how God created ex nihilo, but that doesn't necessarily negate science's contributions to the theory of evolution... blah blah blah... But this kind of explanation is usually meaningless to both sides.

Unable to deal with that you need some kind of explanation, so you've decided there is an all - powerful, all - knowing sentient being you call God who is responsible for, well, pretty much anything you can't explain with more verifiable causes.

We seek another kind of explanation.

But what kind of explanation is Kaplan seeking?

This means that when he tried to understand what he saw, and give some kind of explanation for the life and movement he witnessed, it did not occur to him to look for an abstract principle or a natural law.

For him Whitehead implicitly works with two different kinds of explanation: the «causal» or «ordinary» kind of explanation appealing only, in agreement with the ontological principle, to actual entities, and an «ultimate explanation,» which appeals to the principle of creativity and not to specific actual entities (221).18

Cobb does not attempt a comprehensive answer to this question, but he does proffer two quite different kinds of explanation — one historical, the other theological.

Many processes which we now regard as quite natural and logical were mysteries to medieval man and consequently offered a ready seedbed for all kinds of explanations which depended upon intervention by some supernatural force.

Whether or nor particular quanta considered in this kind of an explanation are capable of further analysis, or yet other sorts of forces (and quanta) are subsequently discovered, is not, after all, the most significant point.

He said: «It is clear that a company that has a turnover of several billion and yet pays only a few million in tax, something isn't quite working there - it's to do with transfer pricing, there's all kinds of explanations.

Saying «god did it» isn't really any kind of explanation any way as it's utterly devoid of any details, processes, mechanisms on HOW it supposedly created it.

Is there anything that process cosmology can add to this kind of explanation?

In fact, the subject is usually foregrounded, because in New York City politics it is important to have some kind of explanation for how you pay the rent, before other people reach their own conclusions.

Could you cite any serious studies regarding the «Russian psyche» besides mainstream newspaper editorials and op - eds (or where do you get this kind of explanations from)?

That's actually a different kind of explanation.

Feynman pioneered this kind of explanation in physics, so it is not surprising that he developed a similar theory for ant trails: randomly moving ants superpose their pheromones, and the peak concentration is along the straight - line path.

«[The study's findings] are not an alternative to this kind of explanation; they are not an explanation at all.»

If you must say this, offer some kind of explanation — but really it's best not to say it at all.

As the title suggests, this is a humanity - in - peril yarn, and Kane's expedition was an attempt to find some kind of explanation for «The Shimmer», a sort of hungry force field steadily expanding outwards to devour and transform chunks of the planet.

I really tried to watch it again on the new DVD, and I was hoping Burton's commentary track would offer some kind of explanation or excuse, but to no avail.

We'll update you with any kind of explanation from Tarantino on his interesting film choices and when he publishes the complete list at the end of the year.

But if you're looking for some kind of explanation of the themes, symbolism, or subtext of Prince of Darkness, you're not going to get it from Carpenter — and especially not if Jason is in the same room with him.

That's the kind of explanation I feel is owed to every author that has had reviews pulled off their book pages.

They are willing to accept all kinds of explanations unlike banks who often reject loan requests bases on reasons given for needing them.

We deserve some kind of explanation.

Terms are thrown around without any kind of explanation to what they mean.