Or do we just need a better explanatory framework?

Constructor theory provides an explanatory framework built on the transformations themselves, rather than the components.

Qin has been concerned to show that history rather than culture provides a solid explanatory framework for the empirical phenomena.

The term refers to the regular work of scientists experimenting within a settled paradigm or explanatory framework.

Over the past few decades, a single explanatory framework, called string theory, has emerged that may turn out to be the ultimate theory of the universe.