Sentences with phrase «probable explanation»

On balance, the history of the text points to that as a probable explanation.

The Peruvian research points to temperature change, but even if changes in precipitation are the cause, the most probable explanation for that too is... climate change.

Scientists don't prove anything — they come up with lots of ideas and «tear them down» one by one — until they're left with a most probable explanation.

One probable explanation could be that an extended East Siberian Chukchi Ice Sheet (ESCIS) as proposed by Niessen et al. 53 has existed at this time (Fig. 5a).

«Mysterious Siberian crater attributed to methane: Build - up and release of gas from thawing permafrost most probable explanation, says Russian team.»

Build - up and release of gas from thawing permafrost most probable explanation, says Russian team.

The most probable explanation is that a lack of tail happened as a spontaneous, genetic mutation and once it had established, was able perpetuate within the confines of such a small island.

The most probable explanation is a short term sales rush that has cleared out stock, repeating the same flood of customers that triggered HP TouchPad sellouts.

The best probable explanation I can come up with is that the «false start» you described caused a drop or spike in voltage (or even removed voltage from the supply line, depending on what you did with the ignition key) right at the point that the airbag controller was powering up and performing its self - diagnostic.

While the method that supports the relation of mouth bacteria and heart disease is not entirely clear, there is a probable explanation.

«Washing out these antibodies is the most probable explanation for the time lag in benefits,» he says.

According to a summary of Barstow's talk released by the Royal Astronomical Society, the most probable explanation for the missing gas is that the area was swept clear of material by a nearby star that went supernova within the last few million years.

«I think imprinting is the most probable explanation» for all this, says Andrew Pomiankowski, a geneticist at University College London, although he believes the work needs to be repeated to solidify the results.

The most probable explanation for all the diplomatic maneuvering is that the NTC simply lacks the power to compel the Zintani militia to release her but simultaneously wishes to use the Taylor issue to stake out a populist position.

Here's my favorite quote of the week: «If we find ourselves with a desire that nothing in this world can satisfy, the most probable explanation is that we were made for another world.»

Nothing is ever definitively proven true using the scientific method, only shown to be the most probable explanation given present experimental data and technology.

This is not a matter of personal preference, but of professional necessity, for the historian's task, as I said at the beginning, is to calculate the most probable explanation of the preserved evidence.

«If I find in myself a desire which no experience in this world can satisfy, the most probable explanation is that I was made for another world.»

Miracles are, by definition, highly improbable, and history is duty bound to deliver us the most probable explanations.

Our theories are PROBABLE explanations for natural phenomena not the factual histories.

Here are some probable explanations from ferret behavior.

Not exact matches

If the simplest explanation is most probable and our trust in mankind in general and this particular gentleman specifically is positive, why would you demand irrefutable proof of his story?

a proposition, or set of propositions, set forth as an explanation for the occurrence of some specified group of phenomena, either asserted merely as a provisional conjecture to guide investigation (working hypothesis) or accepted as highly probable in the light of established facts.

And a non-supernatural explanation is just about always going to be the more probable than a supernatural one.

It is possible that they used Mark in a rather different form to that in which we possess it, or even in two different forms, but the simplest explanation, that they both used substantially our gospel of Mark, is by far the most probable, and is now generally accepted.

Just because there is a very slim chance that a naturalist explanation is possible, doesn't mean that it is probable.

The mere suggestion that a rational explanation of creation is possible, and indeed probable in the future, is enough to destroy the tender shoots of faith in immature souls and has done so on a vast scale and not just in atheistic regimes.

«And even if we supposed (as is probable) that many oracles were not cooked to order, but were expressions of the individual or group unconscious, or of the prophet's «sincere conviction»... even this account of the cause permits, and indeed, requires naturalistic, psychological analysis and explanation.

Again, all of these scenarios are much more probable than the Christian supernatural explanation.

In his Two Sources of Morality and Religion, Bergson wrote his masterly explanation of why speaking and thinking animals, such as we are, would have a need of religion, and why this would make possible and probable a certain amount of extravagance or superstition in manifestations of the fonction fabulatrice.

No explanation of the specific points selected by the prophets for attack seems probable except that those points constituted a continuing danger to the spiritual idea of the divine nature.

Since all of the details are natural rather than artificial, and the explanation is separate from the parable itself, it is more probable that the explanation simply uses the text already found in the stage of the development concerned.

The more probable, but not so romantic, explanation is that some trail driver picked wild chiles and threw them in a pot of beef stew to flavor the dish that might have turned rancid.

At one extreme, some certifiers have abandoned using SIDS as a cause - of - death explanation.7 At the other extreme, some certifiers will not classify a death as suffocation in the absence of a pathologic marker of asphyxia at autopsy (ie, pathologic findings diagnostic of oronasal occlusion or chest compression8), even with strong evidence from the scene investigation that suggests a probable accidental suffocation.

Based on present knowledge, however, the researchers regard the first explanation as more probable.

In discussing the limited evidence for the «probable» link between red meat and colorectal cancer, the WHO itself concedes that it is not possible to rule out other explanations (which it helpfully describes as «chance, bias or confounding»).2 Harcombe agrees, arguing that even when studies strive to adjust statistically for baseline differences in relevant factors such as socioeconomic status, body mass index, physical activity, smoking status and diabetes, it is impossible to grapple fully with all the factors that differentiate «the couch potato» from «the paleo buff» (her ideal), or to take into account the «chasm» that separates fresh and traditionally preserved meats from modern manufactured meat products.9

It leads to an unlikely discovery: Iris patterns in the eye are not as unique as Ian and his colleagues believed they were (The probable rational explanations for this science - fiction leap are completely overlooked, which, again, makes no sense in the context of these characters).

There are any number of possible explanations for this trend, most probable simply being the increasing split between blockbuster «entertainment» films that dominate the technical categories while low - budget (in) dependent films, driven by strong acting, directing and writing, dominate the more prestigious awards, making a 7 Oscar win relatively rare (in order to reach that number, a film has to do well in either the effects or design categories, areas which favor big - budget spectacle).

A second explanation, which may be more probable, but even more scary, is that the speed of the gas pump is determined by how clean the filter is built inside the pump.

Secondly, the arctic has a lot of internal variability — this implies that there is going to be a number of equally probable «explanations» that can't really be assessed absent some additional data.

The more conventional explanation is that as the climate warms there is increased rain in the tropics and thus increased emissions from tropical wetlands which need to have been large enough to counteract a probable increase in the methane sink.

Brian Armstrong, CEO of embattled US wallet and exchange Coinbase, meanwhile «confided,» as Fortune describes it, that the bubble narrative is a «probable» explanation after all.

It is probable that other factors are operative as well in the gender shift, but these are the two best explanations that I have at this point.