Combining Texts

All the ideas for 'Explanation: the state of play', 'Punctual and segmentive Hopi verbs' and 'Subjectivist's Guide to Objective Chance'

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5 ideas

13. Knowledge Criteria / E. Relativism / 5. Language Relativism

3914	Language arranges sensory experience to form a world-order [Whorf]

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]

26. Natural Theory / D. Laws of Nature / 4. Regularities / b. Best system theory

9425	Lewis later proposed the axioms at the intersection of the best theories (which may be few) [Mumford on Lewis]