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单词 supernatural explanation
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supernatural explanation

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supernatural
adjective
uk
/ˌsuː.pəˈnætʃ.ər.əl/us
/ˌsuː.pɚˈnætʃ.ɚ.əl/
caused by forces that cannot be explained ...
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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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Examplesofsupernatural explanation

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Such a runic script, appearing as a product without a discernible cause, would seem to call for asupernaturalexplanation.
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It appears, rather, to be merely asupernaturalexplanationfor wealth, as is the case with the other examples of such fears mentioned as being associated with shopkeepers.
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But people don't want to accept thesupernaturalexplanation.
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Sometimes, he relies on an ad hominem argument : supernatural explanations violate the theist's own epistemic commitments (217, 225).
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Its main point is that a difference between natural and supernatural explanations should be made, and that science should be restricted methodologically to natural explanations.
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While supernatural explanations may be important and have merit, they are not part of science.
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Wheaton is reluctant to accept the community's supernatural explanations for the events, but finds that the events challenge her sense of rationality.
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Real accidents which happened at ringforts could be given supernatural explanations.
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Instead, supernatural explanations should be left a matter of personal belief outside the scope of science.
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He is uncertain about the discovery because it contains supernatural explanations and contradicts scientific ones.
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That the restriction is merely methodological (rather than ontological) means that science should not consider supernatural explanations itself, but should not claim them to be wrong either.
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Though physical and biological scientists today avoid supernatural explanations to describe reality, many scientists continue to consider science and spirituality to be complementary, not contradictory, and are willing to debate.
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As a practical consideration, the rejection of supernatural explanations would merely be pragmatic, thus it would nonetheless be possible, for an ontological supernaturalist to espouse and practice methodological naturalism.
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The storylines of supernatural dramas have always been centered around magic or unexplained phenomena that can not be rationalized by science but, rather by pagan or supernatural explanations.
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teleological explanation

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teleological
adjective
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/ˌtiː.li.əˈlɒdʒ.ɪ.kəl/us
/ˌtiː.li.əˈlɑː.dʒɪ.kəl/
(in philosophy) involving the belief that everything has a purpose ...
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explanation
noun[C or U]
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/ˌek.spləˈneɪ.ʃən/us
/ˌek.spləˈneɪ.ʃən/
the details or reasons that someone gives to make something clear or easy ...
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Examplesofteleological explanation

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I leave it to philosophers of science to evaluate the thesis that the data of modern science point toward the need forteleologicalexplanation.
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To suggest that a form of ethnic nationalism has emerged in a specific period under the assumption of a monolithic whole is apt to lead to ateleologicalexplanation.
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He believed that cybernetics bridged the fundamental gap between mechanical causality andteleologicalexplanation: the same feedback mechanism could now explain both the operation of machiner y and human action.
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And therefore teleological explanations in terms of biological advantage have no place in gestalt theory.
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And the deception lies in its appeal to teleological explanations.
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This was not inevitable : teleological explanations need not give way to mechanistic ones - the seeming inability to reduce the mind to the brain shows this well enough.
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A relevant addendum involves considering research on children's orientation to teleological explanations of natural phenomena, which suggests that relatively rich cognitive proclivities might underlie religious thought.
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Simpson argued that biology, contrary to physics and chemistry, could deliver not only reductionist, but also teleological explanations.
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This account is consistent with teleological explanations of life, which account for phenomena in terms of purpose or goal-directedness.
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But teleological explanations (relating to purpose or function) have remained stubbornly useful in biology - from the structural configuration of macromolecules to the study of co-operation in social systems.
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theoretical explanation

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theoretical
adjective
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/θɪəˈret.ɪ.kəl/us
/ˌθiː.əˈret̬.kəl/
based on the ideas that relate to a subject, not the practical uses of ...
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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 oftheoreticalandexplanationfrom theCambridge English Dictionary© Cambridge University Press)

Examplesoftheoretical explanation

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Atheoreticalexplanationof these unexpected findings seems in order.
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However, the difficulties in atheoreticalexplanationof robustness within the linguistic modelling suggested the adoption of an empirical notion.
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This is done in order to attain atheoreticalexplanationthat makes sense of the complexity, but which also remains firmly couched within the cases.
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Thistheoreticalexplanationbrought him into conflict with an argument he had developed earlier in order to explain acceleration in free fall.
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Thetheoreticalexplanationis easy to follow, and description of the data and its analysis is thorough.
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I have proposed atheoreticalexplanationfor this.
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Ourtheoreticalexplanation, however, represents both tasks as comparative, so we implicitly assume that relative and absolute valuation are ordinally equivalent.
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The test has nothing whatever to do with the merits of any particulartheoreticalexplanationfor why the value exists.
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The contribution to thetheoreticalexplanationof the observed flow properties to be made here may be summarized as follows.
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The observed transition in the 16-country group therefore requires a differenttheoreticalexplanationto an income effect.
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The question is now whether we can provide atheoreticalexplanationfor the conclusion in question.
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But clarifying the phenomena under investigation is a necessary first step that would greatly aid progress toward a unifiedtheoreticalexplanationof syntactic variation.
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However, thetheoreticalexplanationfor the fast settling for larger values of is still lacking.
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Some references to certain passages of this composition can serve us as examples of ourtheoreticalexplanation.
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In fairness though, the disambiguation pattern in the fact/fact condition is a challenge for eithertheoreticalexplanation.
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This has previously been attributed to 'ideological homogeneity', without anytheoreticalexplanation, but might simply reflect bias in cohesion scores.
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We have notheoreticalexplanationfor this finding.
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It provides an example of a conceptual framework and suggestive models of prevention programs that enable hypothesis testing andtheoreticalexplanationof change.
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What is needed is atheoreticalexplanationof how relationships operate as a vehicle for the child's construction of the mind.
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