There is however a methodological priority to descriptive psychology compared to experimental psychology, in that analysis and description of the explanandum is a prerequisite to its explanation.    From Wordnik.com.  [On A Trans-Atlantic Flight] Reference

But he assumes that the explanandum is a fact or basic generality about biological mechanisms (rather than a genuine law or a whole theory), such as the mechanism of action potentials in neurotransmission.    From Wordnik.com.  [Reductionism in Biology] 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 explanandum is precisely observed regularity.    From Wordnik.com.  [Another predictable argument against front-loading] Reference

It may thus serve as a proper scientific explanandum, and.    From Wordnik.com.  [Aristotle's Biology] Reference

This is simply a re-statement of the explanandum, and a very defective one at that.    From Wordnik.com.  [Bits and Pieces of an RNA World] Reference

The discussion thus divides between thermodynamics being an explanandum or explanans.    From Wordnik.com.  [Thermodynamic Asymmetry in Time] Reference

For the explanans to successfully explain the explanandum several conditions must be met.    From Wordnik.com.  [Scientific Explanation] Reference

If it does not cover pecan prices, which narrower class of prices constitutes the explanandum?.    From Wordnik.com.  [Truth in Advertising: Does the Journal of Economic Theory Contain Economics or Theory?, Bryan Caplan | EconLog | Library of Economics and Liberty] Reference

Dretske's proposal is a version of the dual explanandum strategy considered briefly in §6. 3.    From Wordnik.com.  [Mental Causation] Reference

Instead, an explanation is an assembly of information that is statistically relevant to an explanandum.    From Wordnik.com.  [Scientific Explanation] Reference

This points out how JET's editors favor math proofs rather than persuasive explanantions about the explanandum.    From Wordnik.com.  [Truth in Advertising: Does the Journal of Economic Theory Contain Economics or Theory?, Bryan Caplan | EconLog | Library of Economics and Liberty] Reference

The things to be explained (explananda; singular explanandum) are a mixed bag, and the explanations vary greatly in plausibility.    From Wordnik.com.  [Properties] Reference

We looked for mere illustration of the explanandum, mere claim of reason to care, mere claim of merit in the offered explanation.    From Wordnik.com.  [Truth in Advertising: Does the Journal of Economic Theory Contain Economics or Theory?, Bryan Caplan | EconLog | Library of Economics and Liberty] 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

In other words, the notion of a property making a difference for an explanandum is unpacked in terms of statistical relevance relationships.    From Wordnik.com.  [Scientific Explanation] Reference

DS explanation involves deduction of the explanandum from a law, it conforms to the same general pattern as the DN explanation of regularities.    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

However, one has to be clear about the nature of the explanandum in a reductive explanation (i.e., what is the consequent of a reductive deduction).    From Wordnik.com.  [Reductionism in Biology] 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

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

For all other problems, the basis of biological evolution, genome replication, is in place but, in the case of OORT, the emergence of this mechanism itself is the explanandum.    From Wordnik.com.  [Again, there is absolutely no teleology involved] 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

One can be easily misled into thinking that there was a general agreement on both sides of this controversy about the explanandum: we can call that our understanding, or simply the intelligibility of the world.    From Wordnik.com.  [Disbelief] 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

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 this derivation the various Newtonian laws figure as essential premises and they are used, in conjunction with appropriate information about initial conditions (the masses of Mars and the sun and so on), to derive the explanandum (the future position of Mars) via a deductively valid argument.    From Wordnik.com.  [Scientific Explanation] Reference

(like sets or tropes), are typically based on the claim that these entities lack the requisite features to account for the explanandum.    From Wordnik.com.  [Properties] 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

In an abductive environment it is an invitation to investigate something of interest, requiring human intelligence to interpret and the supporting and linked micro-narratives to act as a means of refining the explanandum to achieve an expananans.    From Wordnik.com.  [Cognitive Edge] 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

Empiricists inevitably reconfigured the explanandum ” some elements of the original explanandum were to be (better) explained by the Empiricist account, but a good deal of it was to be explained away as Rationalist over-reaching.    From Wordnik.com.  [Disbelief] 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

That's the explanandum.    From Wordnik.com.  [Bits and Pieces of an RNA World] Reference