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Explanatoriness

Ex-plan′a-to-ri-ness

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Noun.
The quality of being explanatory.

Definition 2024


explanatoriness

explanatoriness

English

Noun

explanatoriness (uncountable)

  1. The quality of being explanatory.
    • 2008 May 30, Alan Baker, “Experimental Mathematics”, in Erkenntnis, volume 68, number 3, DOI:10.1007/s10670-008-9109-y:
        3 was that computer proofs may tend to be less explanatory than traditional proofs because they are more disjunctive, and disjunctiveness reduces explanatoriness.