causal explanation
collocation in Englishmeaningsofcausalandexplanation
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causal
adjective
uk/ˈkɔː.zəl/us/ˈkɑː.zəl/
a relationship, link, etc. between two things in which one causes ...
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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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It seeks description as well ascausalexplanation, depth as well as breadth, the exploration of the distant past as well as of the present.
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Such a choice has the clear advantage of yielding a fullycausalexplanationof net computations, which is our declared aim.
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These changes were unrelated to adolescent issues of stress and acausalexplanationfor these associations must be sought elsewhere.
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Is difference in shape the type of phenomenon that calls for acausalexplanation?
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When probed regarding their personal contribution, the self-relevantcausalexplanationvaried with the maltreatment type.
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The author is probably right saying that phenomenology does not explain why and how mental imagery occurs, but phenomenology has never aimed atcausalexplanation.
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A coherent pattern of events suggests, but does not presume, a unifiedcausalexplanation.
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Thecausalexplanationof the phenomenon of criticism must therefore be found in conflicts of interest.
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A fullcausalexplanationof any theory would constitute, therefore, a proof of its heap structure, a necessary consequence of its totally accidental nature.
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Admittedly, such acausalexplanationis not terribly plausible.
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The next step in the analysis is to compute acausalexplanationfor these forces.
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Intuitively, one feels that such a qualitativecausalexplanationof relations is appropriate.
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A genuinecausalexplanationof intentional action must track how people actually deliberate to arrive at action.
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But of course, optimization is only the motivation of a type of change, not its fullcausalexplanation.
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Model-based reasoning creates acausalexplanationfor the new design by transforming the explanation of the retrieved design.
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The contrastingcausalexplanationhere seems to be one of cultural necessity.
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All we are given by way ofcausalexplanationis the quantitative positivism of affinity theory.
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However, if nocausalexplanationis available, a resiliency explanation of this kind seems to be little more than a ' 'just so' ' story.
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There has to be somecausalexplanationfor how choices get made and that explanation may involve mental states in causal roles.
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