@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
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