We might note, following Baier, (1958, chapter 6) that we think about reasons in three main contexts: contexts of justification, contexts of explanation and contexts of deliberation.
One of the reasons the constructive empiricist highlights the context dependence of explanation is that she wishes to show how efforts at explaining various parts of the world extend beyond the activity of science.
cit., p. 339]; Barnes [2000, p. 355]) Within the context of the explanation provided by H2, neither of the neutrinos postulated is explanatorily idle; the ¼-spin of each neutrino is required to explain the overall missing ½-spin.
This is further evidence that the group exercise has stimulated students to process the concepts into a cognitive structure they can verbalize in the context of an explanation of how self-assembly works, possibly by activating their prior knowledge of molecular mechanisms (cf. Schmidt and Moust, 1998).
But not all students appear to apply this knowledge in the context of their explanations of ocean acidification.
One might expect that if students could identify carbon dioxide as a greenhouse gas, a similar proportion might use this knowledge in the context of their explanations of ocean acidification.
Also at the fair, perhaps by way of some kind of context and explanation of Paglen as a photographer, sits one of the series from The Other Night Sky, a project that tracked classified American satellites and obscure objects through space.
In the context of theories of explanation, however, the label "pragmatic" is usually intended to suggest a somewhat different set of associations.
For example, an explanandum for which the contrast class is left implicit may seem to support a context-relative picture of explanation (for example, that different explanations of why the conductor is bent will be appropriate depending on context) but at least sometimes this appearance may be removed by making the intended contrast class explicit.
These findings are discussed in the context of two popular explanations of the modality effect: the cognitive resources explanation and the perceptual resources explanation.
