BI 146 Lauren Ross: Causal and Non-Causal Explanation
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The Success of Physics
physics was so successfully reductive for so long that maybe it's the gold standard, right? I think what would explain it is the fact that we had serious insights in physics early on in in human kind study of the world. We don't learn about jeans until much later but there's a study of physics much earlier. But if you look at the success of explanation, i mean, we've got a whole heck of a lot of them. In medicine, you know, what explains coved wher? There's a lot of diseases that we can explain. A lot of economic outcomes, social outcomes, we can explain in those levels that physics doesn't give us any handle on.
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