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Full Idea
Natural explanations work by showing the systematic causal interconnections between things.
Gist of Idea
Natural explanations give the causal interconnections
Source
Sally Haslanger (Persistence, Change and Explanation [1989], 7)
Book Ref
'Persistence: contemporary readings', ed/tr. Haslanger,S/|Kurtz,RM [MIT 2006], p.177
A Reaction
On the whole I love this sort of idea, but I am wondering if this one prevents mathematical or logical explanations from being natural.