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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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Peter Bieri on Explanation - Dictionary of Arguments

I 72
Causality/explanation/Bieri: if we build it purely physiologically, we know how to continue it, that is, always becoming more detailed.
>Fine-grained/coarse-grained
, >Causality.
This is not possible, however, when the explanation begins with an experience. Then we have to change somewhere on the physiological level. But then we have changed the subject!
>Experiences.
I 74
Explanation/Bieri: always means revealing a certain kind of relationship.
>Consciousness/Bieri, >Consciousness/Chalmers.

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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.

Bieri I
Peter Bieri
Was macht Bewusstsein zu einem Rätsel?
In
Bewusstein, Thomas Metzinger, Paderborn/München/Wien/Zürich 1996

Bieri III
P. Bieri
Analytische Philosophie des Geistes Weinheim 2007


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