Like Sellars had argued in the case of explanation, this account distinguishes between reduction and testing of reduction and the need of derivation for both.
By contrast, Hafner and Mancosu build their case against Steiner using a case of explanation from real analysis, recognized as such in mathematical practice, which concerns the proof of Kummer's convergence criterion.
Unfamiliar topics were concerned with school-based activities that involved new stories (a wordless picture book in the case of narrative) and novel materials (magnets in the case of explanations).
A related point is that while most theorists of scientific explanation have proposed models that are intended to cover at least some cases of explanation that we would not think of as part of science, they have nonetheless assumed some implicit restriction on the kinds of explanation they have sought to reconstruct.
The classical explanation LOTH offers is to postulate a system of representations with combinatorial syntax exactly as in the case of the explanation of the linguistic systematicity.
Also in the case of mathematical explanation of mathematical facts, we need to carefully analyze more case studies in order to get a better grasp of the varieties of mathematical explanations.
But why prefer reading B? Because, Sturgeon suggests, an analogous choice presents itself in the case of scientific explanation and we prefer reading B in that case (Sturgeon 1988, 251 252).
First, note that according to the SR model, and in contrast to the DN/IS model, an explanation is not an argument either in the sense of a deductively valid argument in which the explanandum follows as a conclusion from the explanans or in the sense of an inductive argument in which the explanandum follows with high probability from the explanans, as in the case of IS explanation.
If the data are rich enough, the findings generated through this process can go beyond description of particular cases to explanation of, for example, reasons for the emergence of a phenomena, predicting how an organisation or other social actor is likely to instigate or respond to a situation, or identifying areas that are not functioning well within an organisation or system.
No such progression of intermediate steps seems to be available for inspection in the case of evolutionary explanations of the instinct to make art.
But after 12 jurors in Albany found that the prosecution had not proved any of six counts against each officer, and after a juror pointed obliquely to the prosecution's presentation of the case by way of explanation, Mr. Johnson suddenly found himself excoriated this weekend in the streets, at churches, and on talk radio.
