logical explanation

collocation in English

meaningsoflogicalandexplanation

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logical
adjective
uk
/ˈlɒdʒ.ɪ.kəl/us
/ˈlɑː.dʒɪ.kəl/
using ...
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explanation
noun[C or U]
uk
/ˌek.spləˈneɪ.ʃən/us
/ˌek.spləˈneɪ.ʃən/
the details or reasons that someone gives to make something clear or easy ...
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(Definition oflogicalandexplanationfrom theCambridge English Dictionary© Cambridge University Press)

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The mostlogicalexplanationfor this is that extracting words from sentence-final position was easier for the infants than extracting the words from initial position.
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It seems the onlylogicalexplanationfor the major part of the observed increase in mortality after bereavement.
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The extension of this interpretation to an equation between perceptual salience and explicit learning is ungrounded in any evidence orlogicalexplanation.
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But thelogicalexplanationis overwhelmed by the juxtaposition of seemingly unrelated, un-identical elements.
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Unfortunately, this vague question became: find alogicalexplanationof quantum phenomena, which eventually led to quantum 'logic'.
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Therefore, the onlylogicalexplanationthat one could have for opposing my modest proposal is that people would fear the result of the referendum.
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This difference must naturally have an explanation, and a simple andlogicalexplanation.
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Before these funny reservations are made, let us have alogicalexplanationof why they are there.
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Certainly there must be somelogicalexplanationfor a ridiculous action such as this.
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It seems to me that there is a much morelogicalexplanationof where the offence lies.
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In seeking explanations, we have been muffled by defence requirements, and we are unable to get anylogicalexplanationin support of the move.
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I am sure that there will be alogicalexplanationfor this.
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This seems silly, but there is alogicalexplanation.
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That is merely one possible andlogicalexplanation.
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That is somewhat contradictory, although there may be alogicalexplanationfor it.
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We have never had anylogicalexplanationof that.
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Can she give alogicalexplanationof why the other 11 seem to have reneged on the undertaking that they gave then?
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That is an enormous anomaly for which there is nologicalexplanation.
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It is the onlylogicalexplanationof having this system of election.
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That was thelogicalexplanation, but how does one find experimentally whether the bees in the hive share each other's food?
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