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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Bibliographic Details
Main Author: Skow, Bradford
Other Authors: Massachusetts Institute of Technology. Department of Linguistics and Philosophy
Format: Article
Language:en_US
Published: Taylor & Francis 2014
Online Access:http://hdl.handle.net/1721.1/85652
https://orcid.org/0000-0002-7892-4540