Questions tagged [explanation]
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How important is explanatory power when it comes to assessing the likelihood of a hypothesis?
Suppose I predict that John will get into a fight tomorrow and he does. Almost noone will think I can read the future. It seems to be "within" the bounds of chance.
Suppose I instead predict the result of every single sporting outcome in the world…
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What determines a need for explanation?
This is a question that has been bugging me that came up on a debate about the Kalam cosmological argument between Graham Oppy and Andrew Loke, both philosophers as far as I am aware: https://www.youtube.com/live/a8NrTv-Durc?si=22cjbeVgIpmP1gNz
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What kind of explanation is this?
Hi i've been reading about causality and explanations in "The System of Logic, Ratiocinative and Inductive" J.S. Mills says that to explain something is to provide causes in one way or another. But, there are many different kinds of explanation…
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Is there a concept in philosophy that deals with how MUCH a theory explains?
Suppose I win the lottery and I pray to God before it. I now tell others that God helped me. Others, skeptics, respond that it makes no sense as to why God only helped me but not others. I now construct a hypothesis of God where I simply define God…
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Why does a non uniform distribution often seem to “beg for an explanation”?
Take for example the proposed fine tuning of the universe. Because there are certain constants proposed to be fine tuned for life, some postulate the existence of a multiverse with constants ranging through all possible values. This seems…
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