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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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G.W.F. Hegel on Explanation - Dictionary of Arguments
Schurz I 224 Explanation/Hegel/Schurz: Thesis: Explanation goes in principle beyond description, it is a kind of "Wesensschau". DuhemVsHegel/WittgensteinVsHegel: Science can only describe at all! (WittgensteinVsExplanation). >L. Wittgenstein, >P. Duhem, >Description, >Explanation/Duhem, >Explanation/Wittgenstein. Law/laws of nature/solution/Hempel: also laws are descriptions - just general descriptions! Explanation/Hempel: goes beyond description in that it establishes a logical connection. >Explanation/Hempel. I 225 Last explanation/Schurz: does not exist in science for exactly this reason: every explanation must presuppose something unexplained. Example gravitation law, example the fact that there was a big bang. Nothing can explain itself, there is no "self-explanation". >Explanation/Schurz, >Explanation/Hempel, >Ultimate justification._____________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. |
Schu I G. Schurz Einführung in die Wissenschaftstheorie Darmstadt 2006 |
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Ed. Martin Schulz, access date 2024-04-25