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Full Idea
Explanation does not entail prediction.
Gist of Idea
Explanation does not entail prediction
Source
Owen Flanagan (The Problem of the Soul [2002], p. 73n)
Book Ref
Flanagan,Owen: 'The Problem of the Soul' [Basic Books 2003], p.73
A Reaction
Presumably the inverse of this is also true, as we might be able to predict through pure induction, without knowing why something happened. We predict that smoking is likely to cause cancer. Complex things might be explicable but unpredictable.