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An Explanation of Splaying

Journal of Algorithms, 1994
Summary: We propose a framework for studying bottom-up restructuring heuristics for binary search trees. We identify the key role played by depth-reducing rules in obtaining logarithmic amortized cost per access. We show that splaying is by no means the only heuristic that offers logarithmic amortized cost.
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Shopping for Explanations

Science, 2007
We were shocked by the Random Sample “born to shop?” (7 September, p. 1301). Such a study hardly deserves the notice of a premier science journal. The Random Sample summarizes a “study” of sex-based differences in the ability of modern city dwellers to remember the locations of ...
Elizabeth M, Brumfiel   +6 more
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Complementary Explanations

Synthese, 1999
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Explanation and explanation by hypothesis

Synthese, 1976
In this paper I locate and discuss a number of problems involved in a proposal to revise very considerably what may fairly be called the received account of Freud as scientist manqu?. My purpose is in no way exegetical or antiquarian. It is because of the attention currently (and properly) paid to him by certain philosophers that I choose Freud as a ...
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Unification And Explanation

Synthese, 2002
In this article we criticize two recent articles that examinethe relation between explanation and unification. Halonen and Hintikka (1999), on the one hand,claim that no unification is explanation. Schurz (1999), on the other hand, claims that all explanationis unification. We give counterexamples to both claims.
Erik Weber, Maarten Van Dyck
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[Explanation] Is Explanation Better

Philosophy of Science, 1997
Robert Wilson (1994) maintains that many interesting and fundamental aspects of psychology are non-individualistic because large chunks of psychology depend upon organisms being deeply embedded in some environment. I disagree and present one version of narrow content that allows enough reference to the environment to meet any wide challenge.
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Explanation in Physics: Explanation

Royal Institute of Philosophy Supplement, 1990
In what sense do the sciences explain? Or do they merely describe what is going on without answering why-questions at all. But cannot description at an appropriate ‘level’ provide all that we can reasonably ask of an explanation? Well, what do we mean by explanation anyway?
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Explanation as Orgasm*

Minds and Machines, 1998
I argue that explanation should be thought of as the phenomenological mark of the operation of a particular kind of cognitive system, the theory-formation system. The theory-formation system operates most clearly in children and scientists but is also part of our everyday cognition. The system is devoted to uncovering the underlying causal structure of
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Adaptation-Based Explanation: Explanations as Cases

1989
Publisher Summary This chapter discusses a case-based approach to the problem of learning new explanations. Adaptation-based explainer (ABE) applies a case-based approach to the problem of constructing explanations. It brings together a few insights of explanation-based learning (EBL) and case-based reasoning (CBR), and addresses questions about each
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Is There an Explanation for … the Diversity of Explanations in Biological Studies?

2015
The multiplicity of explanations in the biological sciences has already been amply discussed by philosophers of science. The field of Evo-Devo has been a focus of much attention, with the obvious coexistence and competition of evolutionary and developmental explanations.
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