adequate account

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Missing is an adequateaccount of psychological mechanisms by which the desire for power or control give rise to the claim to be possessed.
As for the present study, even if we were to focus only on the production data, none of these explanations provides an adequateaccount.
A third reason is that it is not an adequateaccount of how we act in the world around us: it is an abstraction.
An adequateaccount of these effects should also constitute an important measure of support for the linguistic principles and structures which underline the account.
We seem to be missing an adequateaccount of why moral judgments have the authority they do within our social lives.
These data also relate to historical costs that may not take adequateaccount of new and relatively expensive drugs, notably the proton pump inhibitors.
As a result, they may not, for example, take adequateaccount of the customs and conventions relating to the employment of women in certain societies.
An adequateaccount must accommodate the relevance of the group and so make clear the meaning of the obligation as well.
For the falsificationist, theories are created as speculative and tentative conjectures in order to give some form of adequateaccount of a particular phenomenon.
On the other, it is insufficient to provide a complete and adequateaccount for the attested facts of the o-fronting pattern.
An adequateaccount in either framework was found to require the postulation of underspecified and, in some instances, nonadult-like underlying representations.
Thus, deviation itself requires further elaboration and a nonstatistical definition if the "developmental deviation" thesis is to be an adequateaccount of disorder.
But any explanatory framework, to be minimally satisfactory within that community, must at the very least provide an adequateaccount of those linguistically central experiences.
If these observations about likely reactions and the understandings underlying them are granted, they must be accommodated by any adequateaccount of collective preferences. ii.
Many studies drawing inferences about causation have not taken adequateaccount of measurement issues, or person effects on the environment, or the possibility of genetic mediation.
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