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Full Idea
One form of explanation is by decomposition.
Gist of Idea
One form of explanation is by decomposition
Source
John Heil (From an Ontological Point of View [2003], 19.8)
Book Ref
Heil,John: 'From an Ontological Point of View' [OUP 2005], p.236
A Reaction
This is a fancy word for taking it apart, presumably to see how it works, which implies a functional explanation, rather than to see what it is made of, which seeks an ontological explanation. Simply 'decomposing' something wouldn't in itself explain.