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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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Humberto Maturana on Explanation - Dictionary 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._____________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. |
Maturana I Umberto Maturana Biologie der Realität Frankfurt 2000 |
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Ed. Martin Schulz, access date 2024-04-16