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From René Descartes onwards, the idea gained momentum that causal explanation proceeds by subsuming the events to be explained under general laws.
Mechanistic explanation proceeds by decomposing the system into parts, describing how the parts are organized into the larger system, and isolating the function performed by each part.
This explanation proceeds by deriving that motion from information about their masses and velocity before the collision, the assumption that the collision is perfectly elastic, and the law of the conservation of linear momentum.
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Scientific investigation and explanation proceed in part through the posing and answering of questions, and human-computer interaction is often structured in terms of queries and answers.
Previous theories of mathematical explanation proceeded top-down, that is by first providing a general model without much concern for describing the phenomenology from mathematical practice that the theory should account for.
Wesley Salmon (1925 2001) argued that probabilistic explanation should be taken as primary and that probabilistic explanations proceed by advancing information that raises the probability of the event (or fact) to be explained.
For explanation, diffusion proceeds proportional to the square root of time, i.e. diffusion ~ time0.5.
Work on discovery and explanation might proceed perfectly well without embracing any particular metaphysical world picture.
Such an explanation would proceed in terms of the way in which language is used, behavioural terms.
This explanation will proceed at the wholesale level of macro-social facts about the population and the various groups that constitute it.
To be sure, the finds allow the interpretation of cannibalism; however, they do not necessarily or intrinsically require it but rather permit that explanation if one proceeds from the prior conviction that cannibalism already existed at that time.
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