Full Idea
It is surprising that no empiricist philosopher before Mill turned in an explicit way to the scrutiny of the concept of explanation, which had …every appearance of being experience-transcendent.
Gist of Idea
Surprisingly, empiricists before Mill ignore explanation, which seems to transcend experience
Source
report of John Stuart Mill (System of Logic [1843]) by David-Hillel Ruben - Explaining Explanation Ch 4
Book Reference
Ruben,David-Hillel: 'Explaining Explanation' [Routledge 1990], p.112
A Reaction
Yes indeed! This is why explanation is absolutely basic, to philosophy and to human understanding. The whole of philosophy is a quest for explanations, so to be strictly empirical about it strikes me as crazy.