Hence the reference is obviously to Aristotle's distinction between knowledge of the ground or explanation of something and knowledge of the mere fact.
191) Brewer has provided a response to this kind of objection, following a suggestion rejected by Heck (2000), on the grounds that the form of explanation that we should look for is not a causal explanation, which would indeed require the priority of the experience, but a constitutive one.
So he decided to take a look at four related subjects—how two prominent economists broke new ground, an explanation of a key metric called intergenerational elasticity (IGE), what previous surveys have taught us, and a push to make better use of administrative records.
'It's a very nervous occasion, you know, being up for an award, and I wanted to keep my feet firmly on the ground,' Irons remarked by way of explanation.
The forbidding landscape at ground zero is otherwise virtually devoid of explanation, except for historical exhibits at St . Pauls Chapel and in the Winter Garden of the World Financial Center.
You might think that if $[p]$ is metaphysically necessary then nothing grounds $[p]$, for the metaphysically necessary facts aren't apt for explanation in the sense of explanation relevant to grounding (or any sense at all, according to some).
There is reason to think, however, that metaphysically necessary facts are apt for explanation in the sense of explanation relevant to grounding.
So you might claim that the essential facts themselves aren't apt for explanation in the sense of explanation relevant to grounding (Dasgupta forthcoming).
One worry for this proposal, however, is this: where there is grounding there is a distinctive form of explanation (see §4), and it's unclear that there is an explanatory connection of the appropriate sort between picket and these additional facts.
Starting from clouds casted on the CER framework, this paper first attempts to establish an educational framework on the ground of philosophical theories of scientific explanation.
