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Ideas for 'Parmenides', 'Defining 'Intrinsic' (with Rae Langton)' and 'Mental Content'

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14. Science / D. Explanation / 2. Types of Explanation / a. Types of explanation
Some explanations offer to explain a mystery by a greater mystery [Schulte]
     Full Idea: An 'obscurum per obscurius' explanation is explaining something mysterious by something even more mysterious,
     From: Peter Schulte (Mental Content [2023], 6)
     A reaction: Schulte's example is trying to explain mental content in terms of phenomenal experience. That is, roughly, explaining content by qualia, when the latter is the 'hard problem'.