Philosophy Lexicon of Arguments | |||
| 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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Perler/Wild I 16 Interpretation/explanation/Science/Animal/Behavior/C.Lloyd-Morgan: maxim: in no case we should regard an action as a result of higher capability, although it can be explained as a result of a simpler capability. ("Morgan's canon") -_____________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. |
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Ed. Martin Schulz, access date 2017-07-28