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explanatorily

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Etymology

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From explanatory +‎ -ly.

Adverb

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explanatorily (not comparable)

  1. With regard to explanation, or explanatory power.
    • 2007 July 10, Jeffrey Dunn, “The obscure act of perception”, in Philosophical Studies, volume 139, number 3, →DOI:
      If they were, we would have a theory just as explanatorily bankrupt as disjunctivism.
    • 2009, J. L. Schellenberg, The Will to Imagine: a justification of skeptical religion, page 31:
      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; []