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Reexamining the "Serbian exceptionalism" thesis [PDF]
Filozofija 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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, 2012 Partial explanations are everywhere. That is, explanations citing causes that explain some but not all of an effect are ubiquitous across science, and these in turn rely on the notion of degree of explanation.
A. Garfinkel +29 more
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Expressivist Explanations [PDF]
Journal 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
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Inference, Explanation, and Asymmetry [PDF]
, 2018 Explanation is asymmetric: if A explains B, then B does not explain A. Tradition- ally, the asymmetry of explanation was thought to favor causal accounts of explanation over their rivals, such as those that take explanations to be inferences.
Khalifa, Kareem +2 more
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Explaining the relationship between the third moderate movement and the new middle class in Iran after the Islamic Revolution. [PDF]
رهیافتهای 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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How Explanation Guides Confirmation [PDF]
, 2016 Where E is the proposition that [If H and O were true, H would explain O], William Roche and Elliot Sober have argued that P(H|O&E) = P(H|O). In this paper I argue that not only is this equality not generally true, it is false in the very kinds of cases ...
Climenhaga, Nevin
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Explanation and trust: what to tell the user in security and AI? [PDF]
, 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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, 2020 In Necessary Beings, Bob Hale addresses two questions: What is the source of necessity? What is the source of our knowledge of it? He offers novel responses to them in terms of the metaphysical notion of nature or, more familiarly, essence. In this paper,
Casullo, Albert
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Turing Patterns and Biological Explanation [PDF]
, 2017 Turing patterns are a class of minimal mathematical models that have been used to discover and conceptualize certain abstract features of early biological development.
Amundson +42 more
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Scientific Explanation: Putting Communication First [PDF]
, 2016 Scientific explanations must bear the proper relationship to the world: they must depict what, out in the world, is responsible for the explanandum. But explanations must also bear the proper relationship to their audience: they must be able to create ...
Potochnik, Angela
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