Combining Texts

All the ideas for 'Explanation: the state of play', 'The Foundations of Empirical Knowledge' and 'Lysis'

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7 ideas

11. Knowledge Aims / C. Knowing Reality / 2. Phenomenalism

8824	No one has defended translational phenomenalism since Ayer in 1940 [Ayer, by Kim]

14. Science / D. Explanation / 1. Explanation / b. Aims of explanation

12314

Audience-relative explanation, or metaphysical explanation based on information? [Stanford]

12313

Explanation is for curiosity, control, understanding, to make meaningful, or to give authority [Stanford]

14. Science / D. Explanation / 2. Types of Explanation / j. Explanations by reduction

12315

We can explain by showing constitution, as well as showing causes [Stanford]

22. Metaethics / C. The Good / 1. Goodness / a. Form of the Good

295	The good is beautiful [Plato]

23. Ethics / C. Virtue Theory / 4. External Goods / d. Friendship

294	People say that friendship exists only between good men [Plato]

26. Natural Theory / C. Causation / 9. General Causation / d. Causal necessity

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The attribution of necessity to causation is either primitive animism, or confusion with logical necessity [Ayer]