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Full Idea
It is not regularities that explain but the activities that sustain the regularities.
Gist of Idea
The explanation is not the regularity, but the activity sustaining it
Source
Machamer,P/Darden,L/Craver,C (Thinking About Mechanisms [2000], 7)
Book Ref
-: 'Philosophy of Science' [-], p.22
A Reaction
Good, but we had better not characterise the 'activities' in terms of regularities.