explanatorily
explanatorily adverb: with regard to explanation, or explanatory power.
Adverb
explanatorily (not comparable)
- With regard to explanation, or explanatory power.
- If they were, we would have a theory just as explanatorily bankrupt as disjunctivism.2007 July 10, Jeffrey Dunn, “The obscure act of perception”, in Philosophical Studies, volume 139, number 3, →DOI
- In saying that a reality is metaphysically ultimate, we say that its existence is explanatorily the most basic fact, that it is deepest, most fundamental in the nature of things; […]2009, J. L. Schellenberg, The Will to Imagine: a justification of skeptical religion, page 31
Origin of explanatorily
From explanatory + -ly.
Questions about explanatorily
- What does explanatorily mean?
- Explanatorily means with regard to explanation, or explanatory power.
- What part of speech is explanatorily?
- Explanatorily is an adverb.
Words near explanatorily in the dictionary
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