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223 | Tania Lombrozo on What Explanations Are
Sean Carroll's Mindscape: Science, Society, Philosophy, Culture, Arts, and Ideas
Is There Variation in Explanation?
There's individual variation across people in the extent to which, for example, they want the mechanistic details. I'm weirdly the person who does not want to know the details sometimes like at the dentist. For that story to work, you really want explanations to be focusing on relatively abstract generalizable features of a situation. That's what we tend to look for in science. We like explanations of both laws and things like that.
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