Causality and Unification: How Causality Unifies Statistical Regularities
Two key ideas of scientific explanation - explanations as causal information and explanation as unification - have frequently been set into mutual opposition. This paper proposes a "dialectical solution" to this conflict, by arguing that causal explanations are preferable to non-causal ex...
Main Author: | Gerhard Schurz |
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Format: | Article |
Language: | English |
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University of the Basque Country
2015-03-01
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Series: | Theoria |
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Online Access: | http://www.ehu.eus/ojs/index.php/THEORIA/article/view/11913 |
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