17085 | A good explanation totally rules out the opposite explanation (so Forms are required) [Plato, by Ruben] |
11289 | Understanding moves from the less to the more intelligible [Aristotle] |
5080 | We know a thing if we grasp its first causes, principles and basic elements [Aristotle] |
1686 | What we seek and understand are facts, reasons, existence, and identity [Aristotle] |
1689 | Explanation is of the status of a thing, inferences to it, initiation of change, and purpose [Aristotle] |
16736 | Explanation is generally to deduce it from something better known, which comes in degrees [Boyle] |
7139 | Explanation is just showing the succession of things ever more clearly [Nietzsche] |
13048 | Good explications are exact, fruitful, simple and similar to the explicandum [Carnap, by Salmon] |
18720 | Explanation gives understanding by revealing the full multiplicity of the thing [Wittgenstein] |
18721 | Explanation and understanding are the same [Wittgenstein] |
13046 | Scientific explanation is not reducing the unfamiliar to the familiar [Salmon] |
13058 | Why-questions can seek evidence as well as explanation [Salmon] |
21507 | Scientific explanation aims at a unifying account of underlying structures and processes [Hempel] |
15306 | Only changes require explanation [Harré/Madden] |
12313 | Explanation is for curiosity, control, understanding, to make meaningful, or to give authority [Stanford] |
12314 | Audience-relative explanation, or metaphysical explanation based on information? [Stanford] |
15559 | Does a good explanation produce understanding? That claim is just empty [Lewis] |
16807 | An explanation gives the reason the phenomenon occurred [Lipton] |
16808 | An explanation is what makes the unfamiliar familiar to us [Lipton] |
16806 | An explanation is what is added to knowledge to yield understanding [Lipton] |
16822 | Seaching for explanations is a good way to discover the structure of the world [Lipton] |
6517 | If all possibilities are equal, order seems (a priori) to need an explanation - or does it? [Robinson,H] |
6515 | An explanation presupposes something that is improbable unless it is explained [Robinson,H] |
9487 | We can't reject all explanations because of a regress; inexplicable A can still explain B [Bird] |
17393 | Scientists eventually seek underlying explanations for every pattern [Scerri] |
17317 | A good explanation captures the real-world dependence among the phenomena [Koslicki] |