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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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Edward O. Wilson on Explanation - Dictionary of Arguments

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Explanation/Science/Wilson, E. O.: One of the scientific mantras means that physical explanations are necessary but not sufficient.
>Necessity
, >Sufficiency.
There are too many idiosyncrasies in the structure of a cell nucleus and other organelles including their molecules, and there is far too much complexity in the constantly changing chemical exchange of a cell with the environment, than conceptual interconnections of this kind would be possible.
>Complexity, >Simplicity.

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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.

WilsonEO I
E. O. Wilson
Consilience. The Unity of Knowledge, New York 1998
German Edition:
Consilience: The Unity of Knowledge New York 1998


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