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223 | Tania Lombrozo on What Explanations Are
Sean Carroll's Mindscape: Science, Society, Philosophy, Culture, Arts, and Ideas
What's the Most Minimal Contrast Between a Cause and an Explanation?
The stronger the statistical evidence that there is a relationship, the more people are willing to endorse these claims. So we wanted cases where there were causal factors where people would not and just even we think were related at all. We ask people claims like, to what extent do you agree that visiting the portrait gallery caused this person to make an optional donation as a left-of-a-museum? Or why did this person make anoptional donation when they left the museum because they visited the portrait gallery?, right? And we have the kind of matched causal claims and explanation claims.
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