The Role of Chance in Explanation
‘Those ice cubes melted because by melting total entropy increased and entropy increase has a very high objective chance.’ What role does the chance in this explanation play? I argue that it contributes to the explanation by entailing that the melting was almost necessary, and defend the claim that...
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Taylor & Francis
2014
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Online Access: | http://hdl.handle.net/1721.1/85652 https://orcid.org/0000-0002-7892-4540 |