Definitions
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- noun That which is to be
explained
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- noun (logic) a statement of something (a fact or thing or expression) to be explained
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Examples
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There is however a methodological priority to descriptive psychology compared to experimental psychology, in that analysis and description of the explanandum is a prerequisite to its explanation.
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But he assumes that the explanandum is a fact or basic generality about biological mechanisms (rather than a genuine law or a whole theory), such as the mechanism of action potentials in neurotransmission.
Reductionism in Biology Brigandt, Ingo 2008
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Whereas in event-explanations the relation between the explanans and the explanandum is empirical, in action-explanations the relationship between the explanans and the explanandum is a logical or conceptual relation.
Robin George Collingwood D'Oro, Giuseppina 2006
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If it does not cover pecan prices, which narrower class of prices constitutes the explanandum?
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This points out how JET's editors favor math proofs rather than persuasive explanantions about the explanandum.
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We looked for mere illustration of the explanandum, mere claim of reason to care, mere claim of merit in the offered explanation.
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We looked for mere illustration of the explanandum, mere claim of reason to care, mere claim of merit in the offered explanation.
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This is simply a re-statement of the explanandum, and a very defective one at that.
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If 'laws' is just shorthand way to refer to the observed regularities, then one is merely identifying the explanandum, not providing an explanans at all.
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For all other problems, the basis of biological evolution, genome replication, is in place but, in the case of OORT, the emergence of this mechanism itself is the explanandum.
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