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22179 | Explanatory facts also predict, and predictive facts also explain [Hempel, by Okasha] |
19000 | Read 'all ravens are black' as about ravens, not as about an implication [Belnap] |
21507 | Scientific explanation aims at a unifying account of underlying structures and processes [Hempel] |
17897 | Analytic explanation is wholes in terms of parts; synthetic is parts in terms of wholes or contexts [Belnap] |
17083 | The covering-law model is for scientific explanation; historical explanation is quite different [Hempel] |
6755 | For Hempel, explanations are deductive-nomological or probabilistic-statistical [Hempel, by Bird] |
13052 | Hempel rejects causation as part of explanation [Hempel, by Salmon] |
20653 | Six reduction levels: groups, lives, cells, molecules, atoms, particles [Putnam/Oppenheim, by Watson] |