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13071 | We can go beyond mere causal explanations if we believe in an 'order of being' [Cover/O'Leary-Hawthorne] |
Full Idea: The philosopher comfortable with an 'order of being' has richer resources to make sense of the 'in virtue of' relation than that provided only by causal relations between states of affairs, positing in addition other sorts of explanatory relationships. | |
From: Cover,J/O'Leary-Hawthorne,J (Substance and Individuation in Leibniz [1999], 1.1.2) | |
A reaction: This might best be characterised as 'ontological dependence', and could be seen as a non-causal but fundamental explanatory relationship, and not one that has to depend on a theistic world view. |
3232 | Abduction could have true data and a false conclusion, and may include data not originally mentioned [Rey] |
Full Idea: Abduction moves from some data to a 'best explanation'. It is not deduction because the data could be true but the conclusion false, and it is not induction because the conclusion may involve data not mentioned in the premises. | |
From: Georges Rey (Contemporary Philosophy of Mind [1997], p.322) |
3128 | It's not at all clear that explanation needs to stop anywhere [Rey] |
Full Idea: It's not at all clear that explanation needs to stop anywhere. | |
From: Georges Rey (Contemporary Philosophy of Mind [1997], Int.2) |