Dray argued that Hempel failed to see that what distinguishes action from event explanations is the nature of the connection between the explanans and the explanandum.
After Davidson, the consensus has been that the philosophical question raised by the action/event distinction is not conceptual but metaphysical: "how can action explanations co-exist alongside event explanations?" Discussions of the action/event distinction have accordingly tended to focus not on methodological issues but on the problem of causal over-determination.
Then as the story progresses, our representative comes up with ever more tortured "rational explanations" for bizarre events, explanations that require us to be more imaginative and gullible than we would be if we simply accepted the supernatural.
Whereas in event-explanations the relation between the explanans and the explanandum is empirical, in action-explanations the relationship between the explanans and the explanandum is a logical or conceptual relation.
So it was not entirely surprising when, the day before United Nations Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon was to make an unprecedented goodwill visit to North Korea, his host cancelled the event without explanation.
An event-specific explanation is that working memory is updated at this boundary and the prior event model with the object is discarded in favor of the updated model that is ready to encode new information.
As for whether other mechanisms could explain PDSS events, any explanation would need to account for the elevated systemic olanzapine concentrations during the event.
It was neither, in journalistic terms, that one should one remain silent: these events demanded explanation, and have reaped thousands of column inches of opinion, analysis and speculation.
A dream Olympic site should probably include a map of Australia, the history of the Olympics, profiles of athletes, event schedules, explanations of the sports and motivational bits about what it takes to be the best in the world.
The arrests late Saturday indicated the case was rapidly accelerating and provided for the first time — in a sometimes confusing week of events — an explanation of why authorities have focused on the men, even as it shed little light about the alleged plot still under investigation in the United States, Pakistan and elsewhere.
