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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._____________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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Vilém Flusser on Explanation - Dictionary of Arguments
I 11 Explanation/Interpretation/Flusser: For example, a cloud is explained by pointing to its causes, a book is interpreted by pointing out its meaning. Cf. >Natural meaning, >Non-natural meaning, >Interpretation, >Signs, >Symptoms. You can humanize everything. It is not possible to speak of the same phenomena when other aspects come to the fore. An interpreted cloud is not that of a meteorologist, an interpreted book has nothing to do with literature. >Description levels, >Levels/order._____________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. |
Fl I V. Flusser Kommunikologie Mannheim 1996 |
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