Full Idea
The search for explanation as Aristotle conceives it is the search for the correct way to distinguish things into natural kinds, which may involve revising our initial conceptions.
Gist of Idea
Aristotelian explanations mainly divide things into natural kinds
Source
report of Aristotle (Metaphysics [c.324 BCE], kind) by Vassilis Politis - Aristotle and the Metaphysics 2.2
Book Reference
Politis,Vasilis: 'Aristotle and the Metaphysics' [Routledge 2004], p.35
A Reaction
Nowadays we would make the huge addition of objects and processes which are invisible to the naked eye, which Aristotle probably never envisaged. He is interested in categories, but we are also interested in mechanisms.