Full Idea
Explanations must cite generalisations.
Gist of Idea
Explanations must cite generalisations
Source
Theodore Sider (Writing the Book of the World [2011], 07.13)
Book Reference
Sider,Theodore: 'Writing the Book of the World' [OUP 2011], p.139
A Reaction
I'm uneasy about this. Presumably some events have a unique explanation - a unique mechanism, perhaps. Language is inescapably general in its nature - which I take to be Aristotle's reason for agreeing the Sider. [Sider adds mechanisms on p.159]