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Reflections from Research Practice
Exchanges, 2022 Scientific and Critical Realism attracts increasing attention as a new paradigm of explanation, for many empirical knowledge disciplines. This new approach to explaining our social and material worlds is underpinned by its ‘depth ontology’, encompassing ...
Huayi Huang
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Typology and usage. The case of negation
Linguistic Typology at the Crossroads, 2022 Linguistic typology has recently started paying more and more attention to language use as an explanatory factor. In this approach, naturally occurring discourse data is used to account for the attested cross-linguistic patterns.
Matti Miestamo +2 more
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Frontiers 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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Cerebellum: an explanation for dystonia? [PDF]
, 2017 Dystonia is a movement disorder that is characterized by involuntary muscle contractions, abnormal movements and postures, as well as by non-motor symptoms, and is due to abnormalities in different brain areas.
Berardelli, Alfredo, Bologna, Matteo
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Multidimensionalism, Resistance, and The Demographic Problem
European 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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Сучасні 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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Mechanistic artefact explanation [PDF]
, 2006 One thing about technical artefacts that needs to be explained is how their physical make-up, or structure, enables them to fulfil the behaviour associated with their function, or, more colloquially, how they work.
de Ridder, Jeroen
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Judgment 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
Frontiers 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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Explanation-Based Auditing [PDF]
, 2011 To comply with emerging privacy laws and regulations, it has become common for applications like electronic health records systems (EHRs) to collect access logs, which record each time a user (e.g., a hospital employee) accesses a piece of sensitive data
Fabbri, Daniel, LeFevre, Kristen
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