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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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M. Pauen on Explanation - Dictionary of Arguments
Pauen I 190ff Explanatory gap/Pauen: there is an explanatory gap between science and folk psychology. >Folk psychology, >Everyday language, >Psychology, >Science. The problem is in principle unsolvable because of the difference between entities. - Everyday terms must be explained causally. >Causality, >Causal explanation. Problem: mental, particularly phenomenal states can not in principle be translated into causal roles. >Intentionality, >Intentions, >Causal role, >Roles._____________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. |
Pauen I M. Pauen Grundprobleme der Philosophie des Geistes Frankfurt 2001 |
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Ed. Martin Schulz, access date 2024-04-18