In naturalistic explanations the explanans is an antecedent condition, an event which precedes in time the event whose cause it is said to be; in mentalistic explanation the explanans is the logical ground of an action, the motive or thought that renders it intelligible. From Wordnik.com. [Robin George Collingwood] Reference
The explanans is the answer. From Wordnik.com. [Planet Atheism] Reference
In other words, creationism is the explanans for the scientific vacuity of ID. From Wordnik.com. [First Calvert now Luskin? - The Panda's Thumb] Reference
The discussion thus divides between thermodynamics being an explanandum or explanans. From Wordnik.com. [Thermodynamic Asymmetry in Time] Reference
As it happens, clouds are natural candidates for the explanans in a scientific account. From Wordnik.com. [Xenophanes] Reference
For the explanans to successfully explain the explanandum several conditions must be met. From Wordnik.com. [Scientific Explanation] Reference
Any explanation that uses a non-natural explanans thing doing the explaining fails to be testable. From Wordnik.com. [Intelligent Thought: Science versus the Intelligent Design Movement - The Panda's Thumb] Reference
First, “the explanandum must be a logical consequence of the explanans” and “the sentences constituting the explanans must be true”. From Wordnik.com. [Scientific Explanation] Reference
˜Explanation™ means ˜adequate explanation™, which in turn requires a demonstration of logical entailment between explanans and explanandum. From Wordnik.com. [Anomalous Monism] Reference
She claims that mathematical explanations need not have a true explanans and consequently the objects posited by such explanations need not exist. From Wordnik.com. [Explanation in Mathematics] Reference
If 'laws' is just shorthand way to refer to the observed regularities, then one is merely identifying the explanandum, not providing an explanans at all. From Wordnik.com. [Another predictable argument against front-loading] Reference
By permitting the explanans to make reference to higher level structures such as axons, he does not require that it contain exclusively biochemical expressions. From Wordnik.com. [Reductionism in Biology] Reference
So the explanans may be correct, but it seems to miss its target, the explanandum: it turns out to be an explanation of why feeling pain is not genuinely perceptual. From Wordnik.com. [Pain] Reference
Dray argued that Hempel failed to see that what distinguishes action from event explanations is the nature of the connection between the explanans and the explanandum. From Wordnik.com. [Robin George Collingwood] Reference
Consider this formulation: a causal mechanism is a sequence of events, conditions, and processes leading from the explanans to the explanandum Varieties Of Social Explanation, p. From Wordnik.com. [Causal mechanisms] Reference
Davidson's claim was that it is only if we understand ˜because™ as ˜was caused by™ that we can justifiably pick out the genuine explanans -- thereby imputing causal potency to mental events. From Wordnik.com. [Anomalous Monism] Reference
Current biology effectively explains individual facts and generalities of smaller scope, and the explanans can be a mere fragment of a theory (cf. Schaffner 2006 on “patchy and fragmentary” reductions). From Wordnik.com. [Reductionism in Biology] Reference
While the former sees terms such as rationality as explanans to explain away such phenomena as norms, the latter argues that normative terms are not so reducible and thus figure in both explanans and explanandum. From Wordnik.com. [Critical Theory] Reference
They all concern the possibility of explaining some sort or aspect of consciousness, but they vary in their particular explananda, the restrictions on their explanans, and their criteria for successful explanation. From Wordnik.com. [Consciousness] Reference
Whereas in event-explanations the relation between the explanans and the explanandum is empirical, in action-explanations the relationship between the explanans and the explanandum is a logical or conceptual relation. From Wordnik.com. [Robin George Collingwood] Reference
The intuition that, contrary to the IS model, the value that a candidate explanans assigns to an explanandum-outcome should not matter for the goodness of the explanation it provides can be motivated in the following way. From Wordnik.com. [Scientific Explanation] Reference
As we have seen, history for Collingwood differs from natural science because in the former as opposed to the latter the relationship between the explanans and the explanandum is logical or conceptual rather than empirical. From Wordnik.com. [Robin George Collingwood] Reference
In perhaps its broadest form, the How question asks how consciousness of the relevant sort could be caused or realized by nonconscious items, but we can generate a wealth of more specific questions by further restricting the range of the relevant explanans. From Wordnik.com. [Consciousness] Reference
The How question thus subdivides into a diverse family of more specific questions depending upon the specific sort or feature of consciousness one aims to explain, the specific restrictions one places on the range of the explanans and the criterion one uses to define explanatory success. From Wordnik.com. [Consciousness] Reference
I perfectly accept that you are competent to advise on presentation, and I supported your request to elaborate on the explanans. From Wordnik.com. [Citizendium, the Citizens' Compendium - Recent changes [en]] Reference
The anonymous genomicist Darbyshire quotes is worrying about finding an explanans for an explanandum that may simply be false or unimportant. From Wordnik.com. [WordPress.com News] Reference
This is to show that the repugnant conclusion of the original second horn can be avoided with some form of divine natural explanans where a divine command explanans fails. From Wordnik.com. [Planet Atheism] Reference
(institutionalized) systems of rules remain only quasi-evolutionary; the crucial explanans is not natural selection, but the system of rules that exists prior to the individual speaker's acquisition of language (cf. Sellars 1954, Searle 1995). From Wordnik.com. [The Normativity of Meaning and Content] Reference
For example, the same explanans will explain both why a subject with strep and certain other properties (e.g. From Wordnik.com. [Scientific Explanation] Reference
In IS explanation, the relation between explanans and explanandum is, in Hempel's words, “inductive,” rather than deductive ” hence the name inductive-statistical explanation. From Wordnik.com. [Scientific Explanation] Reference
Other intentional realists deny the supervenience requirement and elaborate a suitable notion of what intentionality is supposed to explain ” or what is the proper explanandum of a causal explanation in the explanans of which intentionality might figure prominently. From Wordnik.com. [Intentionality] Reference
They will insist that a reductive explanation of something ” and of phenomenal consciousness in particular ” doesn't have to be such that we cannot conceive of the explanandum (that which is being explained) in the absence of the explanans (that which does the explaining). From Wordnik.com. [Higher-Order Theories of Consciousness] Reference
˜metaphysical™ necessity ” and those who see the link between explanans and explanandum as simply one of natural scientific law. From Wordnik.com. [Consciousness and Intentionality] Reference
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