15492 | Explanations are mind-dependent, theory-laden, and interest-relative [Martin,CB] |
17084 | You can't decide which explanations are good if you don't attend to the interest-relative aspects [Putnam] |
12768 | We accept many scientific theories without endorsing them as true [Fraassen] |
13066 | An explanation is just descriptive information answering a particular question [Fraassen, by Salmon] |
17089 | Facts explain facts, but only if they are conceptualised or named appropriately [Ruben] |
14324 | Ontology is unrelated to explanation, which concerns modes of presentation and states of knowledge [Mumford] |
4404 | Maybe explanation is entirely relative to the interests and presuppositions of the questioner [Psillos] |
4803 | An explanation is the removal of the surprise caused by the event [Psillos] |
6751 | Maybe explanation is so subjective that it cannot be a part of science [Bird] |