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An Explanation [PDF]

open access: yesScience, 1881
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Jenner, William, Dale, H. Ridley
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EXPLANATION [PDF]

open access: yesCladistics, 1995
Peer Reviewed ; http://deepblue.lib.umich.edu/bitstream/2027.42/72063/1/j.1096-0031.1995.tb00086.x ...
Farris, J.S.   +29 more
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Persuasive Features of Scientific Explanations: Explanatory Schemata of Physical and Psychosocial Phenomena

open access: yesFrontiers in Psychology, 2021
Explanations are central to understanding the causal relationships between entities within the environment. Instead of examining basic heuristics and schemata that inform the acceptance or rejection of scientific explanations, recent studies have ...
Jordan Richard Schoenherr   +2 more
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Multidimensionalism, Resistance, and The Demographic Problem

open access: yesEuropean Journal of Analytic Philosophy, 2023
Linda Martín Alcoff and others have emphasised that the discipline of philosophy suffers from a ‘demographic problem’. The persistence of this problem is partly the consequence of various forms of resistance to efforts to address the demographic problem.
Ian James Kidd
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AN EXPLANATION [PDF]

open access: yesThe Canadian Entomologist, 1892
On the Report of the Entomologial Club, as given in the Canadian Entomologist for November pp. 246–247, I would make the following remarks:-Mr. Smith's statement that there are two distinct series in the Sphingidœ, as also that the Smerinthinœ have their probable orgin in Ceratocampid forms of the Bombycidœ are both original with myself.
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Motivated explanation [PDF]

open access: yesFrontiers in Human Neuroscience, 2015
Although motivation is a well-established field of study in its own right, and has been fruitfully studied in connection with attribution theory and belief formation under the heading of "motivated thinking," its powerful and pervasive influence on specifically explanatory processes is less well explored. Where one has a strong motivation to understand
Patterson, Richard   +2 more
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TEMPORAL REPRESENTATION OF THE ESSENCES OF THE SUBJECT AREA FOR THE CONSTRUCTION OF EXPLANATIONS IN INTELLIGENT SYSTEMS

open access: yesСучасні інформаційні системи, 2022
The subject of research in the article is is the processes of constructing explanations in intelligent systems using causal relationships. The aim is to develop a representation of the entities of the subject area, taking into account the temporal ...
Serhii Chalyi, Volodymyr Leshchynskyi
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An Evaluation of Allameh Tabatabai's Argument of Reality from the Viewpoint of Swinburne's Simplicity Principle [PDF]

open access: yesComparative Theology, 2022
Philosophers, especially at the beginning of the era of philosophy, have made various arguments to explain the origin of existence. Allameh Tabatabai's argument of reality is among them.
Saeed Bashash, Hasan Fathzadeh
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Sequential and simultaneous multiple explanation: Implications for alternative consideration when response options are not provided

open access: yesJudgment and Decision Making, 2007
This paper reports two experiments comparing variants of multiple explanation applied in the early stages of a judgment task (a case involving employee theft) where participants are not given a menu of response options. Because prior research has focused
Robert C. Litchfield, Jinyan Fan
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Abductive reasoning in modeling biological phenomena as complex systems

open access: yesFrontiers in Education, 2023
IntroductionAbductive reasoning is a type of reasoning that is applied to generate causal explanations. Modeling for inquiry is an important practice in science and science education that involves constructing models as causal explanations for scientific
Paul Engelschalt   +4 more
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