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14. Science / D. Explanation / 1. Explanation / a. Explanation
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Aristotelian explanations are facts, while modern explanations depend on human conceptions [Aristotle, by Politis]
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14. Science / D. Explanation / 1. Explanation / c. Direction of explanation
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The height of a flagpole could be fixed by its angle of shadow, but that would be very unusual [Smart]
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Universe expansion explains the red shift, but not vice versa [Smart]
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14. Science / D. Explanation / 2. Types of Explanation / a. Types of explanation
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Aristotle's standard analysis of species and genus involves specifying things in terms of something more general [Aristotle, by Benardete,JA]
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14. Science / D. Explanation / 2. Types of Explanation / c. Explanations by coherence
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Explanation of a fact is fitting it into a system of beliefs [Smart]
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Explanations are bad by fitting badly with a web of beliefs, or fitting well into a bad web [Smart]
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Deducing from laws is one possible way to achieve a coherent explanation [Smart]
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14. Science / D. Explanation / 2. Types of Explanation / d. Consilience
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An explanation is better if it also explains phenomena from a different field [Smart]
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14. Science / D. Explanation / 2. Types of Explanation / g. Causal explanations
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If scientific explanation is causal, that rules out mathematical explanation [Smart]
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14. Science / D. Explanation / 2. Types of Explanation / j. Explanations by reduction
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Scientific explanation tends to reduce things to the unfamiliar (not the familiar) [Smart]
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14. Science / D. Explanation / 2. Types of Explanation / k. Explanations by essence
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Aristotle regularly says that essential properties explain other significant properties [Aristotle, by Kung]
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