explanatory

Speech parts

1. explanatory - Adjective

2. explanatory - Adjective Satellite

Meaning

Serving to explain; containing explanation; as explanatory notes.

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Examples

We favor hypotheses for their simplicity and explanatory power, much as the architect of the world might have done in choosing which possibility to create. Ian Hacking

There is a strong tendency in explanatory prose to invoke quantities of tension, energy, and whatnot to explain the genesis of pattern. I believe that all such explanations are inappropriate or wrong. Gregory Bateson

We have numerous, extremely naïve assumptions built into our thinking, and our most venerable explanatory engines, such as science, happen also to be our oldest explanatory engines, and therefore they have built into them the most naïve and unexamined assumptions. Terence McKenna

My approach has never been to start from theories to arrive at facts, but on the contrary, to try to bring out from the facts the explanatory thread without which they appear incomprehensible and elude effective action. Maurice Allais

I fear explanations explanatory of things explained. Abraham Lincoln

Philosophies can be judged, at most, on the grounds of the perspicacity with which they decide that something is worthy of becoming the starting point for a global explanatory hypothesis. Umberto Eco

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