What's the difference between explanatory and explicable?

Explanatory


Definition:

  • (a.) Serving to explain; containing explanation; as explanatory notes.

Example Sentences:

  • (1) However, participation in the workshop program changed in a significant way their explanatory patterns in the direction of more participatory ones.
  • (2) It highlights the lack of explanatory power and the primitive nature of current metapsychology.
  • (3) However, ER emerged as the sole significantly explanatory factor when ER+PR- patients were removed from analysis.
  • (4) It concludes that psychological structures are recently evolved transactional processes that masquerade as explanatory entities, but obey rules of intentionality: a hypothesis with clinical and forensic implications.
  • (5) We elicited explanatory models from patients and obtained a history of prior consultations to other types of healer.
  • (6) When a subsequent model was created that did not include decayed root surfaces or root fragments as potential explanatory variables, an additional variable relating to self-perception of mouth appearance emerged.
  • (7) These are conditional probabilities used in logit models to define the dependence of the multinomial proportions on explanatory variables and unknown parameters.
  • (8) The concept of punitive unconscious self-criticism and the concept of divergent conflict, provide sufficient explanatory power.
  • (9) The yield of explanatory x-ray findings was over three times greater among patients with indications for radiography than among those without.
  • (10) Only hypoalbuminemia had a significant independent explanatory value regarding prognosis.
  • (11) Life satisfaction is used as an explanatory outcome.
  • (12) Signal is useful variability, potentially relatable to explanatory variables, and noise is extraneous.
  • (13) Source of subjects, their marital status, the type of study, data collection methods, matching for geographical area, the number of adjustment factors used in the study analysis, the country of study and the calendar period in which the study ended were all important explanatory factors for inter-study variation, but a substantial proportion of inter-study variation remained unexplained.
  • (14) Age of onset of alcoholism is gaining prominence as an explanatory construct in the development of models of alcoholism.
  • (15) None of the other variables added significant explanatory ability to either model.
  • (16) It is claimed that the demarcation between these explanatory modes is crucial in psychiatric, and especially psychotherapeutic practice and research.
  • (17) This study also points to significant regional variation in the proportion of beneficiaries who use home health services, even with controls for many different explanatory variables.
  • (18) Self-concepts and normative expectations are implicated as key explanatory variables.
  • (19) This week I spoke to Richard Murphy , the economist and tax expert, whose new book has the self-explanatory title The Courageous State and brims with imaginative thinking.
  • (20) One important difference is that among the urban unemployed the perceived size of the network is an explanatory factor, but among the rural unemployed perceived stigmatization is more important.

Explicable


Definition:

  • (a.) Capable of being explicated; that may be explained or accounted for; admitting explanation.

Example Sentences:

  • (1) Comparison of these hybrid viruses with the parent A(2) strains provided evidence that all the cross-reactivity of the Hong Kong strain with previous A(2) viruses is explicable on the basis of its similar neuraminidase component.
  • (2) The model suggests that the diversity of beat phenotype may be explicable by changes in the timing of switching between active and inactive states of doublet arm activity.
  • (3) The pathogenesis of both syndromes may be explicable by the fact that soluble parasitic allergens bind to cellules of the respiratory tract and induce hypersensitivity reactions under the influence of reagins.
  • (4) Within science, there are forces that weaken genuine scientific discussion, and these need at least to be explicated so that their deleterious effects can be minimized.
  • (5) The confidence that one can have in the basic finding of hyperserotonemia in autism and the potential benefits to be derived from its explication make further research in this area of great interest.
  • (6) Separate groups of rabbits received explicity unpaired presentations of stimuli (tone alone, light alone and shock alone).
  • (7) The reduced response is explicable in terms of excessive numbers of suppressor cells in old spleens that can prevent young immunocompetent cells from responding maximally to the test antigen.
  • (8) The changes in C(eff) observed under conditions of moderately high K-conductance are explicable as a result of potential decrements in the transverse tubules, which would be expected when the wall conductance there is high, and the conductivity of the tubule lumen is low.
  • (9) Seemingly different interpretations of foot malformations are thereby explicable.
  • (10) A series of blood pressure measurements (averaged) improved the predictability somewhat but this seemed to be fully explicable by the greater stability of an average of several measurements as against a single measurement.
  • (11) The metaphor of clinical work as textual explication, however, creates the expectation that there is a text somewhere to be found.
  • (12) The small figure may easily be explicable on the assumption that the natural onset of spasm is chronologically superposed by chance over immunizations which have to be done within the first year of life.
  • (13) The article deals with a rather rare pathology of the 1st cervical vertebra (Kimmerle anomaly), which frequently may lead to rather serious, and sometimes hardly explicable changes in vertebrobasilar circulation.
  • (14) The resultant rise of brain tryptophan was explicable largely by the associated fall in large neutral amino acids.
  • (15) The present findings explicate those of earlier studies in suggesting that male patients higher in social problem-solving ability are not only likely to be more socially competent, but also are more likely to be less severely impaired in terms of psychopathology.
  • (16) Since Freud's (1911) explication of the nature of paranoia, much has been written concerning the dynamic underpinnings of the illness but less have been detailed regarding its manifestations structurally.
  • (17) These angular illusions were not explicable by the addition of tilt illusions (experiment 6), suggesting that different judgmental processes may underlie orientation and angle estimation.
  • (18) This fact explicates the presence of imidoxon only in small concentrations after application of imidan.
  • (19) These results strongly suggest that the increased regional cerebral blood flow induced by BY-1949 is explicable, at least partly, in terms of a preferential elevation of cyclic GMP within the cerebral vasculature, where the endothelium plays a pivotal role.
  • (20) It is argued that while the results show the influence of the visual surround on children's comprehension of 'falling over', this may not be wholly explicable in terms of surround contour matching, as conventionally correct judgements were obtained in the absence of all straight line contours in the immediate surround.

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