An explanation of some kind was an absolute necessity, just as some working explanation of the universe is necessaryhowever absurdto the happiness of every individual who seeks to do his duty in the world and face the problems of life.

But all other explanations are only guesses likewise, because we do not know how business was transacted in those days and in that country.

The point of the whole matter, then, is that explanation is the first step in argument, and that in order to determine the amount necessary we must consider carefully the audience for which our argument is intended. +71.

On the other hand, if you are talking with a member who does not understand the term, an explanation will be the first thing necessary.

In citing Miss X.'s paper (as he did), Dr. Janet ought to have reported her experiments correctly, ought to have attributed them to herself, and should, decidedly, have remarked that the explanation he offered was her own hypothesis, verified by her own exertions.

The explanation of the phenomenon is no doubt to be sought in the peculiar conventions of Italian society.

The explanation of this confusion as far as the Mercury is concerned (the rest was imagination)

The explanation is Barbran.

Well, in full, it is John Robin Ross-Ellison Ilderim Dost Mahommed Mir Hafiz Ullah Khan, and its explanation is my descent from General Ross-Ellison, Laird of Glencairn, and from Mir Faquir Mahommed Afzul Khan, Jam of Mekran Kot".

Explanation of Terms.+Any word that alone or with its modifiers calls to mind a single idea, is a term.

One day he wrote as an avowed Christian, extolling virtue, piety, and Christian knowledge; the next, he abrogated religion as entirely unnecessary: and his own explanation of this variability was merely"I paint so because it pleases me to paint so, and life is not otherwise.

But the only rational explanation of this omission, is the clear conclusion that it was not then built.

Nothing but voluntarism can enable logicians to see that our actual procedure in knowing is the reverse of this, that causal explanation is the analysis of a continuum, and that 'phenomena,' 'events,' 'effects,' and 'causes' are all creations of our selective attention; that in selecting them we run a risk of analyzing falsely, and that if we do, our 'inductions' will be worthless.

Then the explanation which has been given by apologists for these services is not the least remarkable feature of the transaction.

His explanation is brieflythe use and confusion of different systems of chronology.

An explanation of some kind was an absolute necessity, just as some working explanation of the universe is necessaryhowever absurdto the happiness of every individual who seeks to do his duty in the world and face the problems of life.

The explanation was plain enoughhe took me for a maniac.

A practical view of the situation so clearly pointed to the unwisdom of the President's personal participation in the peace negotiations that a very probable explanation for his determination to be present at the Conference is the assumption that the idea had become so firmly embedded in his mind that nothing could dislodge it or divert him from his purpose.

The explanation of the present word is an instance of this expansion.

To explain a phenomenon means to point out its cause; the explanation of a law is its reduction to other, more general laws.

The explanation is the same in each casemerely the receiving of vibrations on the astral plane instead of on the physical plane.

The frequent explanations which ensued, regarding the seniority of the widow, were a source of constant satisfaction to Miss Crewys, and vexation to her sister.

But in nearly every case the explanation is the samethe projection of a strong and clear thought-form on a large scale.

Perhaps the best explanation of this portion of Lamb's letter is the following passage from Mr. Dykes Campbell's memoir of Coleridge: On June 26, 1830, died George IV., and with him died the pensions of the Royal Associates.

On the other hand his explanation is probably not the whole truth; even German writers confess that the plan of attacking France was meditated, and it was a plan of a nature to recommend itself to the military party in Prussia.