Since the overwhelming majority of scientists accept the modern evolutionary synthesis as the best explanation of current data, the term is seldom used in the scientific community ; to say someone is a scientist implies acceptance of evolutionary views, unless specifically noted otherwise.

The definition implies that the scientific explanation of the world around us is the ' normal ' part of the word and ' para ' makes up the above, beyond, beside, contrary, or against part of the meaning.

One type of explanation at the level of assertion exploits the view that assertion implies or expresses belief in some way so that if someone asserts that p they imply or express the belief that p. Several versions of this view exploit elements of speech act theory, which can be distinguished according to the particular explanation given of the link between assertion and belief.

In any case, simply accepting the triviality of the propositional version implies that there can be no explanation of the connection between sentences and the things that they express ; i. e. propositions.

The UNTB implies that such considerations may be neglected from the perspective of population biology ( because the explanation cited implies that the rare species behaves differently from the abundant species ).

Thus, the simple accelerator model implies an endogenous explanation of the business-cycle downturn, the transition to a recession.

There is no definitive explanation of the roots of the village's name, but its '- by ' ending implies a link to Viking rule during the period of the Danelaw.

Gould states that Darwinism's bringing together of " widely disparate information under a uniquely consistent explanation " implies that it is a successful theory, that amphibians have features that imply a " fishy past ", and that the genealogical tree of Therapsida is a convincing example of macroevolution.

Thus, the hero of Back to the Future time travel through a scientific process, namely a machine designed for this purpose ; this work is therefore the science fiction film as opposed to the Visitors, who also directed a journey through time, but does not give a rational explanation ( the heroes travel in time through the magic, thanks to the work of an enchanter ) and therefore falls within the fantastic ( more precisely, it is a fantastic comedy ).

While there may be several such industries to which the model of this paper is applicable, the authors make particular claim of relevance to the explanation of the course of wages and prices in the steel industry of the United States since World War 2.

Every dream, and this is true of a mental image of any type even though it may be readily interpreted into its equivalent of wakeful thought, is a psychic phenomenon for which no explanation is available.

American philosopher Michael Martin argues that it is not necessarily true that objective moral truths must entail the existence of God, suggesting that there could be alternative explanations: he argues that naturalism may be an acceptable explanation and, even if a supernatural explanation is necessary, it does not have to be God ( polytheism is a viable alternative ).

If the sick person wishes to receive the sacrament of penance, it is preferable that the priest make himself available for this during a previous visit ; but if the sick person must confess during the celebration of the sacrament of anointing, this confession replaces the penitential rite A passage of Scripture is read, and the priest may give a brief explanation of the reading, a short litany is said, and the priest lays his hands on the head of the sick person and then says a prayer of thanksgiving over the already blessed oil or, if necessary, blesses the oil himself.

may not require further explanation or clarification when the very nature of them shows that they are basic and elementary.

This explanation may imply that IQ tests do not necessarily measure a general intelligence factor, especially not Raven's as often argued, but instead may measure different types of intelligence that are developed by different experiences ( this argument is against the notion of an underlying general intelligence, or g factor ).

The author suggests that this may be one explanation for the Flynn effect and that this may be an important explanation for the link between national malaria burden and economic development.

Thus, from an evolutionary perspective men may have had more to gain from a large increase in resources than women have had, which may be one explanation for why men, and especially poor men, tend to gamble more than women.

One explanation may be that Hamlet was written later in Shakespeare's life, when he was adept at matching rhetorical devices to characters and the plot.

Hyperinflation is regarded as a complex phenomenon and one explanation may not be applicable to all cases.

Rabbinic tradition gave the explanation that Isaac was almost sacrificed and anything dedicated as a sacrifice may not leave the Land of Israel.

Journalists who believe they are being fair or objective may give biased accounts — by reporting selectively, trusting too much to anecdote, or giving a partial explanation of actions.

Painter states that it is likely that Eusebius may have obtained his explanation of the siege of Jerusalem from Origen.

Clemens Thoma provides an explanation for this based on the observation that Josephus may have learned of the details of the actions of Annanus in the twenty year gap between the writing of the Jewish Wars and the Antiquities, and thus avoided a positive tone when writing of Ananus in the Antiquities.

Put another way, the control that one class exercises over the means of production includes not only the production of food or manufactured goods ; it includes the production of ideas as well ( this provides one possible explanation for why members of a subordinate class may hold ideas contrary to their own interests ).

Another possible explanation for why the current minimum wage laws may not affect unemployment in the United States is that the minimum wage is set close to the equilibrium point for low and unskilled workers.

They may arise as overelaborated accounts of historical events, as allegory for or personification of natural phenomena, or as an explanation of ritual.

A combination of climate change and hunting by humans may be a possible explanation for their extinction.

One explanation is that the Quarto may have been cut in the printing house to meet a fixed number of pages.

Another, more interesting explanation, is hinted at by Watson when he observes on several occasions that Holmes would have made a magnificent criminal.

There is no explanation of terms nor a qualification that most such revolts have been dealt with by force -- only a bald dogmatism that they must, because of some undefined compulsion, be so repelled.

Alchemists have historically rewritten, and evolved the explanation of their art, making a singular definition difficult.

Johnston, who had little choice in allowing Floyd and Pillow to take charge at Fort Donelson on the basis of seniority after he ordered them to add their forces to the garrison, took the blame and suffered calls for his removal because a full explanation to the press and public would have exposed the weakness of the Confederate position.

The explanation and meaning of a work does not have to be sought in the one who produced it, " as if it were always in the end, through the more or less transparent allegory of the fiction, the voice of a single person, the author ' confiding ' in us ".

This incarnation of the journal ceased publication after its tenth year, in 1883, giving as an explanation Hendricks ' declining health, but Hendricks made arrangements to have it taken over by new management, and it was continued from March 1884 as the Annals of Mathematics.

Some observers have related this explanation to Islam's ban on suicide, which, it is suggested, drove Malay men to create circumstances in which others would kill them.

Yet another explanation is that, while derived from the afore mentioned root, the name of the sea is related to naming for various forms of water and related substances in several European languages, that might have been originally associated with colors found in swamps.

A minority of proponents of a natural explanation have attributed Bigfoot to animals that are not apes such as the giant ground sloth.

Steven Weinberg and a number of string theorists ( see string landscape ) have used this as evidence for the anthropic principle, which suggests that the cosmological constant is so small because life ( and thus physicists, to make observations ) cannot exist in a universe with a large cosmological constant, but many people find this an unsatisfying explanation.

Recently symbolic and connectionist models have been combined, making it possible to take advantage of both forms of explanation.

For further explanation for why people believe other people have consciousness look at Peter Carruthers Phenomenal Consciousness.

Although he presented much evidence for continental drift, he was unable to provide a convincing explanation for the physical processes which might have caused this drift.

Classical historians have dismissed Heraclitus the paradoxographer's explanation as " feeble ".

Extensive sociological, sexological and medical debate have focused on the clitoris, primarily concerning anatomical accuracy, orgasmic factors and their physiological explanation for the G-Spot, and whether the clitoris is vestigial, an adaptation, or serves a reproductive function.

Today the term " Collegiate Shag " is most often used in reference to a kind of double shag ( see explanation below ) that is believed to have originated in New York or New Jersey during the 1930s.

Georg Wissowa proposed the explanation that it might be because the first slaves of the Romans must have been Latins of the neighbouring tribes.

An alternative explanation is that the moving arms have precession torque on them which set the body into twisting rotation.

The most widely accepted explanation for these phenomena is that dark matter exists and that it is most likely composed of heavy particles that interact only through gravity and possibly the weak force ; however, alternate explanations have been proposed, and there is not yet sufficient experimental evidence to determine which is correct.

The popularity of the term deconstruction combined with the technical difficulty of Derrida's primary material on deconstruction and his reluctance to elaborate his understanding of the term has meant that many secondary sources have attempted to give a more straightforward explanation than Derrida himself ever attempted.

" Simulation-based experiments in evolutionary game theory have attempted to provide an explanation for the selection of ethnocentric-strategy phenotypes.

Kraepelin had no evidence or explanation suggesting a congenital cause, and his assumption therefore appears to have been simple ' biologism '.

Bell's theorem is generally understood to have demonstrated that their preferred explanation was not viable.