The person's understanding of his or her mental illness is evaluated by exploring his or her explanatory account of the problem, and understanding of the treatment options.

As insight is on a continuum, the clinician should not describe it as simply present or absent, but should report the patient's explanatory account descriptively.

It does claim to be an explanatory account in singling out important features of people's conception of authority.

The enterprise of attempting to specify exhaustively the range of possible surface variants of a variable is thus argued to be irrelevant to a satisfying and explanatory account of syntactic variation.

Once these principles are formulated a model based on them can make not only explanatory retrodictive accounts of observed data, but predictions about new situations.

But if the interpretation of poetic texts is condemned to indeterminacy, then how can we have an explanatory account of the role of figurative language in communication?

Grimshaw suggests that Freud and psychoanalysis might offer an explanatory account of the self of considerable value.

The physical is defined, for example, as that which is recognized by science, that which is "an essential part of the coherent and adequate descriptive and explanatory account of the spatio-temporal-causal world".

If we allow that the analogy does not provide a useful general descriptive or explanatory account of the growth of knowledge, we may be surprised that it was found plausible at all.

In the aftermath, the Pulitzer Prize Board said it was creating the new category in part because of the ambiguity about where explanatory accounts such as "Making It Fly" should be recognized.