| 11385 | Universal principles are not primary beings, but particular principles are not universally knowable [Aristotle] |
| 12367 | What is most universal is furthest away, and the particulars are nearest [Aristotle] |
| 12380 | Universals are valuable because they make the explanations plain [Aristotle] |
| 12385 | Are particulars explained more by universals, or by other particulars? [Aristotle] |
| 11243 | Aristotelian explanations are facts, while modern explanations depend on human conceptions [Aristotle, by Politis] |
| 21473 | All knowledge and explanation rests on the inexplicable [Schopenhauer] |
| 17086 | Surprisingly, empiricists before Mill ignore explanation, which seems to transcend experience [Mill, by Ruben] |
| 15831 | Explanations have states of affairs as their objects [Chisholm] |
| 8347 | Explanations typically relate statements, not events [Davidson] |
| 14470 | Explanatory exclusion: there cannot be two separate complete explanations of a single event [Kim] |
| 17081 | Usually explanations just involve giving information, with no reference to the act of explanation [Ruben] |
| 11951 | Hume allows interpolation, even though it and extrapolation are not actually valid [Molnar] |
| 16850 | Explanation may describe induction, but may not show how it justifies, or leads to truth [Lipton] |
| 15005 | Explanations must cite generalisations [Sider] |
| 15692 | People tend to be satisfied with shallow explanations [Gelman] |
| 6754 | We talk both of 'people' explaining things, and of 'facts' explaining things [Bird] |
| 6752 | The objective component of explanations is the things that must exist for the explanation [Bird] |
| 17324 | 'Because' can signal an inference rather than an explanation [Liggins] |