Like the five-year-old that I am, I fabricate an obviously fake, over-explanatory explanation.
If you think that grounding either is an explanatory relation or a non-explanatory explanation-backing relation (see §4 for further discussion) then one reason to take the contrastive view of grounding seriously is the fact explanation may itself be contrastive in nature (van Fraassen 1980: Ch. 5).
This means the universal explanatory of an explanation strongly depend on the scientific theory adopted.
Now, it appears that the conjunction "because" must be asymmetrical, because it expresses an explanatory relationship and explanation is asymmetrical.
Abduction, in whichever version, assigns a confirmation-theoretic role to explanation: explanatory considerations contribute to making some hypotheses more credible, and others less so.
When their knowledge base is ready, students can be taught about what can be regarded as a scientific law and how to construct an explanatory and unificatory explanation from it.
In particular, we give a precise picture of the complexity of deciding explanations, α-partial explanations, and partial explanations, and of computing the explanatory power of partial explanations.
A construct developed by Dixon-Woods and colleagues [ 4, 5] provides a helpful explanatory bridge between explanations that focus on expressed patient needs and health service responses.
Others, (e.g., ESTEEM and COMAP) include minimal explanatory text, couch explanations in formal language, and are best suited for upper- division students.
Similar to the approach taken with other widely accepted guidelines, we have defined a minimum set of criteria though a modified Delphi technique and have translated these into recommendations, an explanatory document with explanations, and a checklist.
