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Example sentences for "satisfactory explanation"

  • But at all events it has the merit of providing a satisfactory explanation of the linguistic phenomena.

  • Here too we find a satisfactory explanation of other phenomena noticeable in the Heroic Age, in particular of that military type of kingship which rests on no national basis.

  • In that case too we shall obtain a satisfactory explanation of the later tradition (cf.

  • The features of the development of the placental Mammalia receive their most satisfactory explanation on the hypothesis that their ancestors were provided with a large-yolked ovum like that of the Sauropsida.

  • On this hypothesis all the developmental phenomena subsequently to the formation of the blastodermic vesicle receive a satisfactory explanation.

  • Thus, in a recent work Professor Channing, while expressing some disapproval of this feature of our system, fails to offer a satisfactory explanation of its origin.

  • Still, with all due allowance for these favoring conditions, it is hard to find a satisfactory explanation of the process by which the worshipers of democracy came to deify an undemocratic constitution.

  • Seeing that this is not a satisfactory explanation of human progress, Mr. Mallock supplements it with a new factor which he describes as "the unintended results of the intentions of great men.

  • We possess no satisfactory explanation of this form of coma.

  • Clinicians who have been struck with the frequency with which typhlitis has occurred in tuberculous subjects find in this discovery a satisfactory explanation of this very remarkable coincidence.

  • Taking cold is the common idea of the cause of dysentery, and is always a satisfactory explanation in a case of obscure origin in this or any disease, even though the patient may be able to recall no possible exposure.

  • Various attempts have been made to explain the intestinal ulcer consequent upon burning of the skin, but a satisfactory explanation is lacking as yet.

  • The cyclonic hypothesis also seems to offer a satisfactory explanation of variations in the amount of loess associated with the several glacial epochs.

  • The cyclonic form of the solar hypothesis, however, seems to afford a satisfactory explanation.

  • In either case, however, there is as yet no satisfactory explanation of the uniformity of the earth's climate.

  • Most important of all, a satisfactory explanation of climatic changes and crustal deformation must take account of all the agencies which are now causing similar phenomena.

  • If a satisfactory explanation of each system is thus obtained, the antecedent existence of each form of marriage and of the family may be deduced from the system it explains.

  • The hypothesis that it was the ancient law of the Latin, Grecian, and other Graeco-Italian gentes affords a more rational as well as satisfactory explanation of the facts.

  • Without this assumption it is incapable of a satisfactory explanation.

  • I never have had a satisfactory explanation.

  • I could get no satisfactory explanation of the manner of this possession.

  • The discovery of blood on an object when no satisfactory explanation of its presence can be found is an omen of very evil import.

  • In the case of some local species this explanation is probably the correct one, but we have no hesitation in saying that natural selection is unable to offer a satisfactory explanation in a considerable number of instances.

  • The theory fails to give a satisfactory explanation of the phenomena of sexual dimorphism.

  • We have endeavoured to demonstrate that neither pure Lamarckism nor pure Wallaceism affords a satisfactory explanation of the various phenomena of the organic world.

  • Existing Theories Unsatisfactory Now, no existing theory of heredity can give anything approaching a satisfactory explanation of all these phenomena.

  • It is this class, therefore, that will afford us the best materials for a discussion of the problem, and that may perhaps lead us to a satisfactory explanation of the causes to which sexual colour is due.

  • In the development of the physical cause of gravitation, therefore, the same physical medium, which accounts for that law, must also give a satisfactory explanation of the first of Kepler's Laws.

  • Satisfactory explanation of the Phenomena sought to be Explained.

  • In this conception he was supported by Euler the mathematician, and in 1690 he was able to give a satisfactory explanation of the reflection and refraction of light, on the hypothesis that light was due to wave motion in the Aether.

  • I have never seen a satisfactory explanation of the latter passage; but it is obvious on the face of it that it cannot be meant for universal application, or it would lead to the extinction of the human race.

  • We need not therefore discuss the difficulties connected with the story of Adam and Eve, as to which the present writer has never seen a satisfactory explanation.

  • If they do, and if there is no other way of accounting for the effect in all its circumstances, we conclude that our guess is correct, that our hypothesis is proved, that we have reached a satisfactory explanation.

  • In so doing it follows a certain method, and obeys certain conditions of satisfactory explanation.

  • In laying down the conditions of correct interpretation, of valid argument, of trustworthy evidence, of satisfactory explanation, Logic shows the inquirer how to test and purge his conclusions, not how to reach them.


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