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Full Idea
Rather than an 'interest-relative' notion of explanation (Putnam), it can be informational content which makes an explanation, which is an 'audience-invariant' contraint, which is not pragmatic, but mainly epistemological and also partly metaphysical.
Gist of Idea
Audience-relative explanation, or metaphysical explanation based on information?
Source
Michael Stanford (Explanation: the state of play [1991], p.172)
Book Ref
'Cogito Magazine 05/3', ed/tr. Pyle,Andrew [Carfax 1991], p.172
A Reaction
[compressed summary of Ruben 1990] Examples given are that Rome burning explains Nero fiddling, even if no one ever says so, and learning that George III had porphyria explains his madness.
12313 | Explanation is for curiosity, control, understanding, to make meaningful, or to give authority [Stanford] |
12314 | Audience-relative explanation, or metaphysical explanation based on information? [Stanford] |
12315 | We can explain by showing constitution, as well as showing causes [Stanford] |