Definitions
from The Century Dictionary.
- In an explanatory manner; by way of explanation; with a view to explain.
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- adverb With regard to
explanatory power
Etymologies
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Examples
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You see, "explanatorily," they aren't my real relations. "
Jewel Clara Louise Burnham 1890
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The same response goes for the festival's opening-night movie, rather self-explanatorily titled "Score: A Hockey Musical."
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Each is explanatorily independent from the other, (although not from God).
Prologue 2009
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Stunny: Theism asserts that reality is by metaphysical necessity non-capricious, since theism is the hypothesis that the ontologically and explanatorily ultimate reality is necessarily and perfectly rational.
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Many may share some of the reservations of their Behaviorist predecessors about the place of introspection and subjectivity in science, but they take the view that imagery must be real (and scientifically interesting) because it is explanatorily necessary: The results of many experiments on cognitive functioning, they hold, cannot be satisfactorily explained without making appeal to the storage and processing of imaginal mental representations.
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Use/Identity Theorists claim that their theories are explanatorily more powerful than traditional semantic theories.
Quotation Cappelen, Herman 2009
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I don't understand your use of the word 'suppose', as if considering mind as foundational, ontologically and explanatorily, weren't the default position throughout recorded history.
A Useless Critic 2007
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Theism asserts that reality is by metaphysical necessity non-capricious, since theism is the hypothesis that the ontologically and explanatorily ultimate reality is necessarily and perfectly rational.
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I don't understand your use of the word 'suppose', as if considering mind as foundational, ontologically and explanatorily, weren't the default position throughout recorded history.
A Useless Critic 2007
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Since the scenario is conceivable, it is possible, and since it is possible, then whatever consciousness is, it is explanatorily independent of those activities.
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