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explanans

any explanatory account, particularly a formal deductive explanatory account, by which a particular occurrence or general phenomenon is explained (see EXPLANATION, COVERING-LAW MODEL AND DEDUCTIVE NOMOLOGICAL EXPLANATION, EXPLANANDUM).
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In this endeavor, a different set of explanans dispute for a space behind the curtain, and the creation of a logical theory for this particular aspect of the field became harder.
Processo de desenvolvimento teorico e as explananda fundamentais da estrategia
Pero lo que me interesa con esta analogia es poner en claro que las caracteristicas del explanandum no determinan conceptualmente que caracteristicas tendra el explanans. De esta manera, no hay ninguna necesidad conceptual de sostener que los elementos enunciados en el explanans deben ser relacionales puesto que en el explanandum se mencionan elementos relacionales.
PROCESAMIENTO DEL LENGUAJE Y SEMANTICA INFORMACIONAL
?Que hemos de entender que significa que el referido hipotetico explanans no nos presentaria al explanandum del dolor de muelas como necesario?
LA BRECHA EXPLICATIVA Y LA JERGA DE LA CONCEBIBILIDAD
Siguiendo el ejemplo anterior, los mecanismos sociales a identificar serian aquellos procesos intermedios concretos a traves de los cuales la desregulacion de las tasas de interes, flexibilizacion laboral, recorte del gasto publico y aumento de la desigualdad (explanans), afectan las practicas financieras de los hogares y los conducen a adquirir deudas (explanandum).
Los mecanismos sociales y su relacion con la distincion micro-macro
While an explanation is generally an argument, of which the conjunction of the premises forms the explanans and the conclusion forms the explanandum, an explanation is not an argument for its conclusion.
Review essay: a critique of Michael Huemer's The Problem of Political Authority
(7) Hempel exige que el explanans tenga contenido empirico esto es, sea empiricamente contrastable.
Mano invisible, clausulas lockeanas y justicia privada: Emergencia y justificacion del Estado en Anarquia, Estado y Utopia Invisible-Hand, Lockean Provisos and Private Justice: Emergence and State's Legitimacy in Anarchy, State and Utopia
While they may be a major explanans for economic development, the shift toward adopting capitalist institutions remains largely unexplained.
Sweden and the Revival of the Capitalist Welfare State
In the case of the duty it is important that explanans uses concepts from outside the normative area.
Definition of duty and freedom with conflict
Al objeto de explicacion (explanandum) de la circunstancia de que algunas sociedades experimenten un estancamiento a largo plazo, le han correspondido diversos conjuntos de explicaciones (explanans).
El institucionalismo como factor determinante en el proceso de gobernabilidad
First of all, some slight prudence may be needed as long as there are empirical analyses pointing out that multilateral trade liberalization is not a decisive explanans. In a highly quoted study on the types of trade policies of different states, Rose (2002) shows that the trade policies of GATT/WTO member states have not become more liberal after accession than those of non-members.
"Free trade semantic disagreements": Why wto-style multilateral liberalization and ftas stand much closer to protectionism
[E]s natural en tales casos decir que el explanans o los explanantia son constitutivos de el explanandum, o que el darse del explanandum consiste en nada mas que el darse del explanans o los explanantia.
Fundacion y reduccion
As Crowell puts it, "The epoche expresses transcendental phenomenology's commitment to the analytic autonomy of first-person experience", which "precludes me from appealing in my analysis to any third-person explanatory theories of the experience in question (for instance, causalgenetic ones) since any such theory necessarily posits the existence of both explanans and explanandum" (28).
Dan Zahavi, ed.: The Oxford Handbook of Contemporary Phenomenology

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