The Ontology of Explanation
In Fred D'Agostino & I. C. Jarvie (eds.), Freedom and Rationality. Reidel (1989)
| Abstract | In an explanation, what does the explaining and what gets explained? What are the relata of the explanation relation? Candidates include: people, events, facts, sentences, statements, and propositions. | |||||||||
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