Said to have spent $5 million to sponsor 20-volume encyclopedia featuring explanation of 613 Jewish commandments.
The magnet task was scored on a scale with a maximum score of 9 (some features were worth more than 1 point) using the following features: explanations, physical properties, hypotheses/predictions, generalizations, applied knowledge, and empirical reports.
The videos viewed by both the treatment and control groups featured explanations provided by the award-winning biology instructor; the control videos were scripted by that instructor, while the treatment (CTA-based) videos were based on protocols developed as the result of extensive, iterative interviews with three expert biologists on the faculty at the same institution.
Unlike Facebook's "People You May Know" feature, no explanation is provided for why these people were suggested.
Recall in particular that Hempel responds to putative counterexamples that attempt to show that the DN model fails to capture the directional features of explanation by claiming that these features are to be understood in terms of "pragmatics", rather than in terms of features a traditional, non-pragmatic theory might capture.
Increasingly, newspapers run packages, where news and background features - explanation, implications, case studies - are placed together in the newspaper.
One of their missives, attributed to "Cassius Clay" (the birth name of Muhammad Ali, another Wu Lyf hero), featured an explanation for their cryptic modus operandi.
Throughout the exhibition the physics is clearly explained on computer screens, faux white boards and nifty multimedia features (an explanation of the make-up of the atom, projected onto an uneven, white table-top, is particularly mesmerising).
Others, including Scriven, pointed out the pragmatic features of explanation, suggesting that arguments that fall far short of deductive validity are nonetheless sufficient to "explain" a given historical event in a given context of belief.
Follow JAsie Lee Curtis Taete on Twitter.
