As Holland has it: " For the first time, a chronicler set himself to trace the origins of a conflict not to a past so remote so as to be utterly fabulous, nor to the whims and wishes of some god, nor to a people's claim to manifest destiny, but rather explanations he could verify personally.

Postmodernism is therefore skeptical of explanations that claim to be valid for all groups, cultures, traditions, or races, and instead focuses on the relative truths of each person.

They use this assertion to support their claim that modern science is atheistic, and contrast it with their preferred approach of a revived natural philosophy which welcomes supernatural explanations for natural phenomena and supports theistic science.

As Holland has it: " For the first time, a chronicler set himself to trace the origins of a conflict not to a past so remote so as to be utterly fabulous, nor to the whims and wishes of some god, nor to a people's claim to manifest destiny, but rather explanations he could verify personally.

All of the features that proponents claim to explain by exposure to an aquatic environment have conventional explanations that are more accepted within the paleoanthropological community.

Eliade provided two distinct explanations for not having met with Sebastian: one was related to his claim of being followed around by the Gestapo, and the other, expressed in his diaries, was that the shame of representing a regime that humiliated Jews had made him avoid facing his former friend.

Minimalists all hold that dating these events as contemporary are etiological explanations written centuries after the events they claim to report.

Two explanations for this given in the series are his own claim that he ' doesn't have a subconscious ' and thus ' nothing is going on ' in his head and Sally's remark that there's not enough blood in his body for ' both ends ' ( making reference to his abnormally large penis ).

As Holland has it: " For the first time, a chronicler set himself to trace the origins of a conflict not to a past so remote so as to be utterly fabulous, nor to the whims and wishes of some god, nor to a people's claim to manifest destiny, but rather explanations he could verify personally.

As Holland has it: " For the first time, a chronicler set himself to trace the origins of a conflict not to a past so remote so as to be utterly fabulous, nor to the whims and wishes of some god, nor to a people's claim to manifest destiny, but rather explanations he could verify personally.

As Holland has it: " For the first time, a chronicler set himself to trace the origins of a conflict not to a past so remote so as to be utterly fabulous, nor to the whims and wishes of some god, nor to a people's claim to manifest destiny, but rather explanations he could verify personally.

As Holland has it: " For the first time, a chronicler set himself to trace the origins of a conflict not to a past so remote so as to be utterly fabulous, nor to the whims and wishes of some god, nor to a people's claim to manifest destiny, but rather explanations he could verify personally.

As Holland has it: " For the first time, a chronicler set himself to trace the origins of a conflict not to a past so remote so as to be utterly fabulous, nor to the whims and wishes of some god, nor to a people's claim to manifest destiny, but rather explanations he could verify personally.

Some researchers, while accepting the empirical findings of democratic peace, have looked for alternate explanations other than simply the direct claim that democracy causes peace.

One general criticism motivating research of different explanations is that actually the theory cannot claim that " democracy causes peace ", because the evidence for democracies being, in general, more peaceful is very slight or non existent ; it only can support the claim that " joint democracy causes peace ".

They claim to have created these toroids in the laboratory, and to have developed a mathematical model for them that is similar to some explanations for ball lightning.

The actor-observer asymmetry is often confused with the hypothesis of a self-serving bias in attribution — the claim that people choose explanations in a strategic way so as to make themselves appear in a more positive light.

Specifically, the Knowledge Argument is an attack on the physicalist claim about the completeness of physical explanations of mental states.

This claim is made despite the fact that there are solid, scientific explanations for firewalking.

There are also alternative explanations for the cases where Aramaic Primacists claim that the Aramaic seems to read better.

Different characters offer different explanations for the appellation " the boneless "; some claim it refers to impotence, while others assert that it is because godar in shamanic trances see Ivar in the otherworld as a giant serpent.

" Of course, science does not claim to know anything with absolute certainty ; science " represents a process for proposing and refining theoretical explanations about the world that are subject to further testing and refinement.

) They also claim that most known coherent emission processes are unlikely explanations for the source.

There were two primary explanations put forth for the expansion of the universe.

The study had two possible explanations for this: one opportunity-based and the other grievance-based.

This makes possible two ways of controlling the consistency of the knowledge: detection of contradictions and production of explanations.

According to EPR there were two possible explanations.

The 1712 edition, retitled Le Nouveau cuisinier royal et bourgeois, was increased to two volumes, and was written in a more elaborate style with extensive explanations of technique.

Lieber surmises: “ There were only two logical explanations for Andreas ' behavior: either he did not think the funds were stolen ( in other words, they were approved ) or he didn't care.

Regarding energy conservation, the television series and books offer two explanations:

Economists offer two principal explanations for why stagflation occurs.

Thus, in regard to this matter and this document, either one of two explanations is commonly held:

Starting with Paul Langevin in 1911, there have been numerous explanations of this paradox, many based upon there being no contradiction because there is no symmetry — only one twin has undergone acceleration and deceleration, thus differentiating the two cases.

Traditionally, two other explanations have been favoured: 1.

At least, not generally ( some increases in complexity are sometimes necessary ), and so there remains a justified general bias towards the simpler of two competing explanations.

From a game theoretical point of view, there are two explanations for the vast variety of norms that exist throughout the world.

James Hope Moulton regards Spiegel's suggestions as the best of other etymological explanations of these two names.

Sigmund Freud's idea that religion is nothing more than an illusion, or even a mental illness, and the Marxist view that religion is " the sigh of the oppressed ," providing only " the illusory happiness of the people ," are two other influential reductionist explanations of religion.

The herbicide resistance of this strain has at least two possible explanations: that a “ peer-to-peer ” network of coca farmers used selective breeding to enhance this trait through tireless effort, or the plant was genetically modified in a laboratory.

The narwhal was one of two possible explanations of the giant sea phenomenon written by Jules Verne in his book Twenty Thousand Leagues Under the Sea.

There are two possible explanations for the reason that honeycomb is composed of hexagons, rather than any other shape.

Experimentation is the step in the scientific method that helps people decide between two or more competing explanations – or hypotheses.

Among the possible explanations satisfying these two conditions, some other condition of minimality is usually imposed to avoid irrelevant facts ( not contributing to the entailment of ) being included in the explanations.

It separates the theory into two components, one of which is a normal logic program, used to generate by means of backward reasoning, the other of which is a set of integrity constraints, used to filter the set of candidate explanations.

* Animations and explanations of a double pendulum and a physical double pendulum ( two square plates ) by Mike Wheatland ( Univ.

Anthropologist John D. Hawks expresses the view that rather than explaining human traits simply and parsimoniously, it actually requires two explanations for each trait-first that proximity to water drove human evolution enough to significantly change the human phenotype and second that there was significant evolutionary pressure beyond mere phylogenetic inertia to maintain these traits ( which would not be adaptive on dry land ) and points out that exaptation is not an adequate reply.

The first two explanations are unacceptable for the reason that such faulty readings would belong to Qere and Ketiv, which, in case of doubt, the majority of manuscripts would decide.