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5 ideas
16057 | Instrumentalism normally says some discourse is useful, but not genuinely true [Horgan,T] |
12314 | Audience-relative explanation, or metaphysical explanation based on information? [Stanford] |
12313 | Explanation is for curiosity, control, understanding, to make meaningful, or to give authority [Stanford] |
20653 | Six reduction levels: groups, lives, cells, molecules, atoms, particles [Putnam/Oppenheim, by Watson] |
12315 | We can explain by showing constitution, as well as showing causes [Stanford] |