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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.
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.

explanation and imply
The judge Gideon was also called Jerubaʿal, a name which seems to mean ' Baʿal strives ', though the Yahwists ' explanation in is that the theophoric name was given to mock the god Baʿal, whose shrine Gideon had destroyed, the intention being to imply: " Let Baʿal strive as much as he can ... it will come to nothing.
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.
A correct explanation of the interaction between jib and mainsail was published by aerodynamicist and yachtsman Arvel Gentry in 1981, and " is much more complicated than the old theories imply ".
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.

explanation and IQ
One problem with this explanation is that if in the US comparing older and more recent subjects with similar educational levels, then the IQ gains appear almost undiminished in each such group considered individually.
Rushton has been one of the proponents for the explanation that racial differences in IQ are partially related to genetic inheritance.
And yet, he argues that the environmental explanation gained force after the discovery that IQ scores were rising over time.
The American Psychological Association has said that while there are differences in average IQ between racial groups, and there is no conclusive evidence for environmental explanations, " there is certainly no empirical support for a genetic interpretation ," and no adequate explanation for the racial IQ gap is presently available.
The Bell Curve also led to a 1995 report from the American Psychological Association, " Intelligence: Knowns and Unknowns ", acknowledging a gap between average IQ scores of whites and blacks as well as the absence of any adequate explanation of it, either environmental or genetic.
The first explanation is that standardized IQ tests and testing procedures are culturally biased toward European-American middle class knowledge and experiences.
This, and a similar relationship regarding the degree of heritability of tests and the magnitude of black-white differences on tests, have been argued to support the partially genetic explanation for black-white average IQ differences.
Flynn ( 2010 ) has criticized the basic assumption that confirmation of Spearman's hypothesis would support the partially genetic explanation for black-white average IQ differences.
" Chabris reported a meta-analysis demonstrating that " any cognitive enhancement is small and does not reflect any change in IQ or reasoning ability in general, but instead derives entirely from performance on one specific type of cognitive task and has a simple neuropsychological explanation ", called " enjoyment arousal ".

explanation and tests
Another explanation is an increased familiarity of the general population with tests and testing.
Boyer's leaving the motel room with almost all of Cooke's clothing, regardless of exactly why she did so, combined with the fact that tests showed Cooke was inebriated at the time, provided what inquest jurors deemed a plausible explanation for Cooke's bizarre behavior and state of dress, as reported by Franklin and Carr.
This explanation, in conjunction with the fact that Carr's testimony corroborated Franklin's version of events, and the fact that police officials testified that both Boyer and Franklin had passed lie detector tests, was enough to convince the coroner's jury to accept Franklin's explanation, and return a verdict of justifiable homicide.
The amount of actual tests done is unknown and no explanation of how it was determined that participants had " settled down " after seeing erotic images was given.
Despite its initial choice of Algeria for nuclear tests, the French government decided to build Faa ' a International Airport in Tahiti, spending much more money and resources than would be justified by the official explanation of tourism.
This effect can provide a partial explanation for the widespread acceptance of some beliefs and practices, such as astrology, fortune telling, graphology, and some types of personality tests.

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`` There was nothing else I could do '', the maid answered, satisfied with a rather vague explanation.
Some philosophers, such as Daniel Dennett in an essay titled The Unimagined Preposterousness of Zombies, argue that people who give this explanation do not really understand what they are saying.
These layers do not show the tilting and distortion associated with mountain building, therefore, the likeliest explanation is a " regression ", that is, a drop in sea level.
Years after this explanation was dismissed, Albert Einstein showed that the two pressures do not cancel out exactly at the edges of the vanes because of the temperature difference there.
theory, do show the phenomena of Bell-inequality violations that are considered to invalidate EPR's preferred " local hidden-variables " type of explanation for the correlations
Linguistic prescriptions also form part of the explanation for variation in speech, particularly variation in the speech of an individual speaker ( an explanation, for example, for why some people say, " I didn't do nothing "; some say, " I didn't do anything "; and some say one or the other depending on social context ).
By way of a folk memorial, he is recalled in the Australian vernacular expression " do a Harold Holt " ( or " do the Harry "), rhyming slang for " do a bolt " meaning " to disappear suddenly and without explanation ", although this is usually employed in the context of disappearance from a social gathering rather than a case of presumed death.
It was held that, as the defendant had been aware of his actions, he could neither have been in a state of automatism nor insane, and the fact that he believed that God had told him to do this merely provided an explanation of his motive and did not prevent him from knowing that what he was doing was wrong in the legal sense.
This is a possible explanation for the humour of his violence toward his wife, and even towards others who may have somehow “ had it coming ,” but does not do anything to justify his violence toward the baby, whose only crime was to cry, as babies often do.
One explanation is that some of the names have been lost over the years ; and for the most part, major characters do have names.
But as for those who do, this is the explanation …"
Such explanation is called statistical thermodynamics ; also often it is also referred to by the term ' statistical mechanics ', though this term can have a wider meaning, referring to ' microscopic objects ', such as economic quantities, that do not obey Hamiltonian dynamics.
Kreeft says that being all-powerful doesn't mean being able to do what is logically contradictory, e. g., giving freedom with no potentiality for sin, c ) God's own suffering and death on the cross brought about his supreme triumph over the devil, d ) God uses suffering to bring about moral character, quoting apostle Paul in Romans 5, e ) Suffering can bring people closer to God, and f ) The ultimate " answer " to suffering is Jesus himself, who, more than any explanation, is our real need.
* Uniformity of process across time and space: If a past phenomenon can be understood as the result of a process now acting in time and space, do not invent an extinct or unknown cause as its explanation.
* explanation of modal editing with vi – " Why, oh WHY, do those #?@!
In fact, the modern explanation of the uncertainty principle, extending the Copenhagen interpretation first put forward by Bohr and Heisenberg, depends even more centrally on the wave nature of a particle: Just as it is nonsensical to discuss the precise location of a wave on a string, particles do not have perfectly precise positions ; likewise, just as it is nonsensical to discuss the wavelength of a " pulse " wave traveling down a string, particles do not have perfectly precise momenta ( which corresponds to the inverse of wavelength ).
As interpreted in contemporary scientific practice, " entities should not be multiplied beyond necessity " advises opting for the simplest theory among a set of competing theories that have a comparable explanatory power, discarding assumptions that do not improve the explanation.

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