@misc{Lexicon of Arguments, title = {Quotation from: Lexicon of Arguments – Concepts - Ed. Martin Schulz, 29 Mar 2024}, author = {Pinker,Steven}, subject = {Explanation}, note = {I 54 Explanation/Pinker: bad evolutionary explanation: E.g. Humor weakens tension; - happy people find more allies. Good explanation: brings technical analysis that is independent of the explanatory part. - Begins with objectives in a world with causes and effects. To understand seeing of humans and animals, we need to look at machines. E.g. nausea in pregnancy: defense against toxins. Bad explanation: Freud: desire for oral abortion. I 124 Explanation/Pinker: here it is about according to which principles things function - not about what things are "good examples" for a well-known term. >Principles, >Laws of nature, >Causal explanation, >Understanding, >Evidence, >Observation, >Functional explanation.}, note = { Pi I St. Pinker How the Mind Works, New York 1997 German Edition: Wie das Denken im Kopf entsteht München 1998 }, file = {http://philosophy-science-humanities-controversies.com/listview-details.php?id=217844} url = {http://philosophy-science-humanities-controversies.com/listview-details.php?id=217844} }