adequate explanation
collocation in Englishmeaningsofadequateandexplanation
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adequate
adjective
uk/ˈæd.ə.kwət/us/ˈæd.ə.kwət/
enough or satisfactory for a ...
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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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However, we do not regard the differences in input source to be anadequateexplanationof the phenomenological distinction between waking and dreaming.
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But anadequateexplanationmust at least identify the salient properties of the phenomenon to be described.
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It is difficult to give anadequateexplanationfor this development.
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The mechanical philosophy did not provide anadequateexplanationfor the chemical phenomena.
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The quantitative analysis alone does not provide anadequateexplanationfor why district of residence, and not participation, influenced constitutional support.
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This simple model may be anadequateexplanationof the vexing relationship between the onset of glaciations and apparently closely synchronous episodes of explosive volcanism.
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Variations in the systemic vascular resistance are anadequateexplanationfor the spells.
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Let me then turn to the notion of anadequateexplanationthat is relevant to our discussion by way of the following examples.
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This is an acceptable compromise, but it does not describe the totality of their behaviour, nor (crucially) does it provide anadequateexplanationfor it.
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Gigerenzer et al. contend, quite reasonably, that such a post-hoc appeal does not amount to anadequateexplanationof the behaviour.
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Adequateexplanationof normal or abnormal behavioral change requires programs or program components and evaluation research with a coherent theoretical framework.
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Yet, the identical twin data noted indicate that this polygenic concept is not anadequateexplanation, and it is likely that environmental influences are also very much involved.
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Car roll's rebuttal is that differences in working memory are not anadequateexplanation.
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If science did not have anadequateexplanationfor the simpler case of the oboe, it was helpless to account for the exponentially more complicated case of the voice.
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I said that there were four questions, but there is a fifth, which defiesadequateexplanation.
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There has never yet been anadequateexplanationas to why there should be such a substantial increase.
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Afteradequateexplanation, the consent of an adult of sound mind and understanding can be relied upon to be true consent.
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Until we get anadequateexplanation, my words stand.
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