6 ideas
10245 | One geometry cannot be more true than another [Poincaré] |
22179 | Explanatory facts also predict, and predictive facts also explain [Hempel, by Okasha] |
6755 | For Hempel, explanations are deductive-nomological or probabilistic-statistical [Hempel, by Bird] |
17083 | The covering-law model is for scientific explanation; historical explanation is quite different [Hempel] |
13052 | Hempel rejects causation as part of explanation [Hempel, by Salmon] |
10370 | Causal relata are individuated by coarse spacetime regions [Quine, by Schaffer,J] |