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Reexamining the "Serbian exceptionalism" thesis [PDF]

open access: yesFilozofija i Društvo, 2003
Although former Yugoslavia constituted what was widely held to be the most "promising" communist country in terms of potentials for economic reform and political democratization, Serbia remained the only East European country in which the former ...
Vujačić Veljko
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Explanation, confirmation, and Hempel's paradox [PDF]

open access: yes, 2017
Hempel’s Converse Consequence Condition (CCC), Entailment Condition (EC), and Special Consequence Condition (SCC) have some prima facie plausibility when taken individually.
Roche, William
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Expressivist Explanations [PDF]

open access: yesJournal of Moral Philosophy, 2012
In this paper I argue that the common practice of employing moral predicates as explaining phrases can be accommodated on an expressivist account of moral practice. This account does not treat moral explanations as in any way second-rate or derivative, since it subsumes moral explanations under the general theory of program explanations (as defended by
openaire   +3 more sources

Explaining the relationship between the third moderate movement and the new middle class in Iran after the Islamic Revolution. [PDF]

open access: yesرهیافتهای سیاسی و بین المللی, 2020
This article uses the concept of explanation in the "critical discourse analysis" method of Norman Farclough, in order to explain the two-way relationship between the six elements of the third middle class and the new middle class (urban) in the post ...
Amir Hemati   +3 more
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The Criteria for Recognizing Devotional Rulings in Islamic Jurisprudence

open access: yesمطالعات تطبیقی فقه و اصول مذاهب, 2022
In a general view, Shar'i rulings are divided into two categories: devotional (ta‘abbudī) and explanatory (ta‘līlī). The first category, which is also called rulings of non-reasonable meaning, is such that intellect is not able to understand their ...
Mohammad Momeni   +2 more
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Lesser degrees of explanation

open access: yesErasmus Journal for Philosophy and Economics, 2015
F. A. Hayek argued that the sciences of complex phenomena, including (perhaps especially) economics, are limited to incomplete "explanations of the principle" and "pattern predictions".
Scott Scheall
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Explanation and trust: what to tell the user in security and AI? [PDF]

open access: yes, 2010
There is a common problem in artificial intelligence (AI) and information security. In AI, an expert system needs to be able to justify and explain a decision to the user.
Pieters, Wolter
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Beyond Explanation: Understanding as Dependency Modeling [PDF]

open access: yes, 2018
This paper presents and argues for an account of objectual understanding that aims to do justice to the full range of cases of scientific understanding, including cases in which one does not have an explanation of the understood phenomenon.
Dellsén, Finnur
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THE BASIC APPROACHES TO THE PROBLEM OF UNDERSTANDING AND THE EXPLANATION IN HISTORY OF THE PHILOSOPHICAL IDEA

open access: yesСовременная наука и инновации, 2022
Article is devoted to consideration of a problem of the understanding, being by one of the eternal philosophical problems, aggravated as the importance of the given term for the philosophical theory, and its polysemy.
Ulyana Vladimirovna Bolotova
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The Relationship Between Functional Explanation and Explanation Based on Benefits and Harms in Islamic Jurisprudence [PDF]

open access: yesاسلام و مطالعات اجتماعی
Fiqh (Islamic jurisprudence), as one of the key religious sciences, holds significant potential for shaping religious sciences, particularly in its capacity to explain social phenomena, thereby positioning itself as a social science.
Sayed Mostafa Hoseinisirat   +3 more
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