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Michael Strevens on explanation and modern scientific knowledge

Thing in itself

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How to Deduce a High Probability Using Deductive Logic

Justin: I think what we want to do is look at that the complete causal story. And frame our explanatory question in enough detail so we have a definite conception of the thing that we want to explain. The more detailed the question you ask often the more detailed the story you have to tell, he says. Justin: You can really just use, use the, the in a way what is the most simplest, and compromising tool in the philosophers toolbox deductive logic to say what it is that really matters about a causal story for the purpose of explanatory understanding.

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