On Explanation

The Proceedings of the Twentieth World Congress of Philosophy 10:135-141 (2001)
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Given the great historical distance between scientific explanation as Aristotle and Hempel saw it, some important similarities and differences between he two approaches are examined and appraised, especially the inclination to take deduction itself as the very model of scientific knowledge: an inclination we have good reason to reject.

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