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Full Idea
An 'obscurum per obscurius' explanation is explaining something mysterious by something even more mysterious,
Gist of Idea
Some explanations offer to explain a mystery by a greater mystery
Source
Peter Schulte (Mental Content [2023], 6)
Book Ref
Schulte,Peter: 'Mental Content' [CUP 2023], p.50
A Reaction
Schulte's example is trying to explain mental content in terms of phenomenal experience. That is, roughly, explaining content by qualia, when the latter is the 'hard problem'.
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