Lexicon of Arguments

 

I 9
Explanation/Maturana: one explains experience with experience.
>Experience/Maturana.
I 12
Def statement/Maturana: a generative mechanism that corresponds to the regularities of experience. This mechanism and the explanatory experience do not occur in the same phenomenal area. - The explanation does not replace the experience. - The explanation extends the area in which the observer lives.
>Domains, >Niches.
I 68
Language/explanation/Maturana: closed area- not to leave by linguistic means. - It follows: the logic of description is the logic of the descriptive (living) system. - Only a complete reproduction is a full explanation.
>Description/Maturana.
I 96
Explanation/Maturana:
1. delimitation of the to be explained system or phenomenon
2. delimitation of components and relations -
Explanation = reproduction.
Mechanistical: weight and sum of the weights of the parts
Vitalistical: teleonomic: refers to the properties of the parts.
I 146
Explanation/Maturana: always the answer to the question of the emergence of a phenomenon.
Criteria: are set by the listener. - The criterion creates an explanation area.
I 224
Initially our lives proceed regardless of our explanations - but its course is then entirely dependent on them.
I 192
Explanation/Maturana: constitutive characteristics are not in need of explanation.
I 239
Explanation area/Maturana: depends on preferences for basic assumptions - is not constituted by measuring, quantification or predictions, but by validation criteria - divided scientists belong to different communities. - They do not share the criterion of validation.
>Conflicts.