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All the ideas for 'Explanation: the state of play', 'works' and 'The Therapy of Desire'

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6. Mathematics / A. Nature of Mathematics / 1. Mathematics

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All of mathematics is properties of the whole numbers [Kronecker]

6. Mathematics / A. Nature of Mathematics / 3. Nature of Numbers / c. Priority of numbers

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God made the integers, all the rest is the work of man [Kronecker]

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

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

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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

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

22. Metaethics / C. The Good / 2. Happiness / b. Eudaimonia

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Philosophers after Aristotle endorsed the medical analogy for eudaimonia [Nussbaum, by Flanagan]