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Explanation: making a statement in relation to an event, a state, a change or an action that was described before by a deviating statement. The statement will often try to involve circumstances, history, logical premises, causes and causality. See also description, statements, theories, understanding, literal truth, best explanation, causality, cause, completeness.
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Annotation: The above characterizations of concepts are neither definitions nor exhausting presentations of problems related to them. Instead, they are intended to give a short introduction to the contributions below. – Lexicon of Arguments.

 
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Steven Pinker on Explanation - Dictionary of Arguments

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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.
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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.

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Explanation of symbols: Roman numerals indicate the source, arabic numerals indicate the page number. The corresponding books are indicated on the right hand side. ((s)…): Comment by the sender of the contribution. Translations: Dictionary of Arguments
The note [Concept/Author], [Author1]Vs[Author2] or [Author]Vs[term] resp. "problem:"/"solution:", "old:"/"new:" and "thesis:" is an addition from the Dictionary of Arguments. If a German edition is specified, the page numbers refer to this edition.

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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