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223 | Tania Lombrozo on What Explanations Are
Sean Carroll's Mindscape: Science, Society, Philosophy, Culture, Arts, and Ideas
Why Mechanism Information Is So Important to Explanation
In the study, people who went to a portrait gallery were more likely to donate than those who didn't. The researchers say this is because they had mechanism information that allowed them to generalize from one case to another. They think it might give us some hints towards what the functional role of explaining is for people.
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