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Definition of Explanation |
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Explanation
The act of explaining, expounding, or interpreting; the act of clearing from obscurity and making intelligible; as, the explanation of a passage in Scripture, or of a contract or treaty. That which explains or makes clear; as, a satisfactory explanation. The meaning attributed to anything by one who explains it; definition; interpretation; sense. A mutual exposition of terms, meaning, or motives, with a view to adjust a misunderstanding, and reconcile differences; reconciliation; agreement; as, to come to an explanation. Related Definitions: Act, Adjust, Agreement, An, And, Anything, As, Attributed, By, Clear, Clearing, Come, Contract, Definition, Explaining, Explanation, Exposition, Expounding, From, In, Intelligible, Interpretation, Interpreting, It, Making, Meaning, Misunderstanding, Mutual, Obscurity, Of, One, Or, Passage, Reconcile, Reconciliation, Satisfactory, Scripture, Sense, That, The, To, Treaty, View, Which, Who, With |
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Explanation Quotations
An explanation of cause is not a justification by reason. C. S. Lewis Communism to me is one-third practice and two-thirds explanation. Will Rogers Do not seek the because - in love there is no because, no reason, no explanation, no solutions. Anais Nin On the ordinary view of each species having been independently created, we gain no scientific explanation. Charles Darwin To one who has faith, no explanation is necessary. To one without faith, no explanation is possible. Saint Thomas Aquinas In fact, when you get right down to it, almost every explanation Man came up with for anything until about 1926 was stupid. Dave Barry If the abstract rights of man will bear discussion and explanation, those of women, by a parity of reasoning, will not shrink from the same test. Mary Wollstonecraft The simplest and most psychologically satisfying explanation of any observed phenomenon is that it happened that way because someone wanted it to happen that way. Thomas Sowell Everything has a natural explanation. The moon is not a god, but a great rock, and the sun a hot rock. Anaxagoras This has always been a man's world, and none of the reasons that have been offered in explanation have seemed adequate. Simone de Beauvoir |
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Explanation Translations
explanation in Afrikaans is verduideliking explanation in Danish is forklaring explanation in Dutch is toelichting, explicatie explanation in Italian is definizione, interpretazione, spiegazione explanation in Latin is explicatus explanation in Norwegian is forklaring |
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