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Words, grammatical forms and meanings linked to the ontology.

explanatorily en · ADV

Etymology

Etymology tree English explanatory Middle English -ly English -ly English explanatorily From explanatory + -ly.

Meanings

  1. (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: