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Rorty I 255
Putnam (according to Rorty): e.g. we will never have a microphysical explanation why square pins do not fit into round holes ((s) Vs the thesis, that actually everything could be explained by microphysical facts).
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Münch III 271
Explanation/Putnam: we must distinguish between explanations and "parents of explanations" (e.g. why square pins do not fit into round holes. The explanation would follow through different parameters like stability, outline, microstructures.)


(Stephen M. Kosslyn/James R. Pomerantz, Imagery, Propositions and the Form of Internal Representations”, Cognitive Psychology 9 (1977), 52-76.)
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Putnam I (g) 186
Intrinsic Explanation/Putnam: if there were intrinsic explanations within the world, the world itself would be like a ghost - then materialism cannot be true.
>Intrinsicness, >Materialism.

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