Explanation

A popular topic of choice in the news as of late is the Syrian refugee crisis. As a result of the war on Syrian land, millions of Syrians have fled their homes in the hopes that they can escape their war torn country and find a new and slightly more stable life elsewhere. In total, the war has displaced more than eleven million refugees, about half of Syria’s population, and shows no signs of letting up. While the European Union has had its hands full trying to formulate a response to the crisis…

semester that success on a test directly derives from studying strategies. The three preeminent studying strategies we learned are elaborative interrogation, self explanation, and the testing effect. Elaborative interrogation is creating possible explanations to a fact you are trying to memorize. Self explanation is creating an explanation for how a new piece of information is linked to information you have already learned. The testing effect is of course testing yourself on the material you are…

• When war ends, when the last shots are fired, peace is officially declared and the boys go home doesn’t necessarily mean the violence from that war suddenly disappears and everyone starts singing Kumbaya. That was not the case for the Great War mostly due in part by para-militarism that occurred in eastern and southern Europe after the Great War had ended. Para-militarism can be described as a group of noncombatants organized as a military force for the purpose of either helping or…

assumptuous explanation of every thought process. Thus we can logically approve that there is a physical explanation of everything. This in turn denies Descartes’s distinction between mind and brain. They are in fact the same thing. It is the brain which has the capability of drawing emotions and carrying out thoughts and all of this is a result of physical changes inside the brain. A dualist provides a list of emotions and sentiments that we experience but fails to provide a logical…

and its theories. Science, in general, can give a full explanation to one thing, but does not fully fulfill the other. For instance, one can have a headache and there can be so many reasons as to why; one doctor can tell you “maybe you 're not drinking enough water,” but another can explicitly tell you what is precisely going on in your body. Therefore, if science is knowledge, then how come, two different doctors don’t agree upon an explanation? The issue is that science has diverse theories,…

Hypotheses are proposed explanations for a fairly narrow set of phenomena, they are usually based on prior experience, scientific background knowledge, preliminary observations and logic. We often come up with multiple hypotheses to explain an observation, we just eliminate the ones that are wrong. What's left over is not a theory or a law or an 'ultimate truth', it's just a possible explanation for something, one that can lead us to new hypothesis, which we may agree or disagree with the…

prosaic explanation. The best explanation so far is that the Russian military satellite caused the signal. It has done similar things like this in the past during the Soviet period. Another less likely explanation is that many comets started orbiting the star, causing the changes around the vicinity. People today still do not know the causes of the possible extraterrestrial signals. As time goes on, and the mystery has yet to be solved, who is to say that there really was a prosaic explanation…

total) 1. Final (or teleological) cause The final cause is “that for the sake of which a thing is done” (13). The final cause of a soup bowl is: holding soup so that it can be eaten. The final cause is an integral component of Aristotle’s explanation of why the world is how it is. Scientists (artists) understand the causes that lie beneath the mundane understanding of common people. A bricklayer understands the ratios of ingredients needed to make strong mortar; a scientist understands…

mentioned are where earthquakes were a common occurrence. The first group, ancient Greeks, had many reason why earthquakes occur. Ancient Greece is one place where there were many myths created. They were a polytheistic society and used the gods as an explanation. The source of earthquakes according to them was Poseidon, the king of the sea and earthquakes. The earthquakes are the result of him slamming his trident down…

conclude that there is a relationship. We need to consider that our results are not absolute and there may be other reasons for why the relationships are observed. For example, can the phenomenon we are observing be better explained by an alternative explanation than what we are proposing? Could our results have been from chance with our data (i.e. measurement error or lucky sampling)? Is our data set strong enough to provide the results we are looking for? Can we prove this same finding through…