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OK, I need a word. This word means "cause-explaining", as in looking at past events & explaining why things are now the way they are. Here's the sentence:

'This inability prevents geographers from using GIS in either a [cause-explaining] or predictive role, for as Hägerstrand noted as early as 1970, “geographical information is time as well as space-specific” (Gittings, 2003[a]).'

Yes, I realise the sentence as a whole kind of sucks. But I don't feel like refining it until I've got the word I want.

Date: 2003-12-07 08:28 am (UTC)
From: [identity profile] angledge.livejournal.com
A catalyst is something that causes a change. I need a word that means explaining why something occurred.

Explanatory?
Explicative? (don't even know if that one's a real word)
examining root causes ....

Argh! Essay due tomorrow morning.

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