| The philosophical distinction between truths of meaning and truths of fact does not reflect a genuine, explanatorily significant distinction. |
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| This leads naturally enough to the conclusion that it is simply confused or explanatorily superfluous. |
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| The closure principle is both plausible and explanatorily valuable. |
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| Without it, even a priori deducibility might seem explanatorily less than sufficient, though the need for such a story remains a matter of controversy. |
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| But that is quite different than establishing that mental properties are explanatorily relevant that an event's being a mental kind of event matters to the occurrence of any effects in the world. |
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| If they were, we would have a theory just as explanatorily bankrupt as disjunctivism. |
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| On the other hand, the account in terms of competition among writing systems proved to be explanatorily inadequate in a number of cases. |
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