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  • noun Plural form of explanandum.

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  • Instead, we may take the explananda of QM to be facts about the probabilities or expectation values of outcomes rather than individual outcomes themselves.

    Scientific Explanation Woodward, James 2009

  • Again such explananda are deducible from the system of equations used to model juvenile delinquency.

    Scientific Explanation Woodward, James 2009

  • Some typical explananda in accounts of “the evolution of morality” are:

    Morality and Evolutionary Biology FitzPatrick, William 2008

  • This produces two pairs of terms-il vero/scienzia and il certo/coscienza-which constitute, in turn, the explananda of philosophy and philology ( "history" broadly conceived), respectively.

    Giambattista Vico Costelloe, Timothy 2008

  • Its explananda are truths to be found in sources such as Scripture, creeds, liturgical expressions, patristic texts, the example of saints, and the experience of the faithful; while texts, liturgies, and people are observable, they are observable only as media and tokens, not as the living doctrines embodied thereby; and it is the latter which constitute the explananda.

    Archive 2006-12-01 Mike L 2006

  • Its explananda are truths to be found in sources such as Scripture, creeds, liturgical expressions, patristic texts, the example of saints, and the experience of the faithful; while texts, liturgies, and people are observable, they are observable only as media and tokens, not as the living doctrines embodied thereby; and it is the latter which constitute the explananda.

    Ampliative development of doctrine II: a reply to Scott Carson Mike L 2006

  • Hence the joke; if there weren't this crossing of contrastive explananda, there wouldn't be anything humorous about it.

    Linking Is the New Gossip 2005

  • The dual explananda strategy discussed above (6.4) provides one promising framework for doing this, while at the same time displaying sensitivity to the sorts of concerns driving the epiphenomenalist objections.

    Anomalous Monism Yalowitz, Steven 2005

  • Hence the joke; if there weren't this crossing of contrastive explananda, there wouldn't be anything humorous about it.

    Archive 2005-07-01 2005

  • 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.

    Consciousness Van Gulick, Robert 2004

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