explanatory concept
collocation in Englishmeaningsofexplanatoryandconcept
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explanatory
adjective
uk/ɪkˈsplæn.ə.tər.i/us/ɪkˈsplæn.ə.tɔːr.i/
giving an explanation ...
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concept
noun[C]
uk/ˈkɒn.sept/us/ˈkɑːn.sept/
a principle ...
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(Definition ofexplanatoryandconceptfrom theCambridge English Dictionary© Cambridge University Press)
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This observation excludes language dominance as anexplanatoryconcept.
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More profound methodological criticism of the concept of policy networks doubts its veracity asexplanatoryconceptseeing it as a purely descriptive tool.
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What is more difficult, it seems, is to acknowledge the limitations of what appears to be a highly conservedexplanatoryconcept.
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Perhaps exaptation could be viewed as anexplanatoryconceptby virtue of its connection to recruitment.
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The secondexplanatoryconceptis that formal and informal carers have complementary task-specific roles in the provision of support.
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Because there is such diversity in all the others, exaptation is not anexplanatoryconcept.
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The fourth includes the analysis of object drop constructions from bilingual children and discusses the issue of language dominance as anexplanatoryconcept.
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There is indeed more evidence against language dominance as anexplanatoryconcept.
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It is the primaryexplanatoryconceptin his analysis of selection.
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Finally, one has to note that the introduction of some new metaphor, or underlyingexplanatoryconcept, always has a cost.
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One might argue that until intervening processes are proposed and described in deeper detail, the term "conditional strategy" is reduced to a description of behavior, rather than anexplanatoryconcept.
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At the same time, the triumph of the imagination as anexplanatoryconceptsignalled a limitation of testimony and the potential breakdown of the medico-legal economy of miracles.
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Adaptation is anexplanatoryconceptbecause of the connection to natural selection.
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Exaptation is not anexplanatoryconcept.
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Identity emerged as anotherexplanatoryconceptduring two days of discussion.
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At no stage does the fractal representation become a criticalexplanatoryconcept, simply because its predictions are never contrasted with those of models that do not have such a property.
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Studies on antebellum gender construction abound, although those on masculinity lag behind those about feminine prescriptions and have noexplanatoryconceptequal in importance to ' ' woman's sphere.
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In the 1980s, the importance of class itself, as an historical social relationship andexplanatoryconcept, began to be widely challenged.
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