"Knowledge, Explanations, and Confidence," Conference on the Point and Purpose of Epistemic Evaluation, Chambers Philosophy Conference Series, University of Nebraska-Lincoln; Oct. 2, 2010.
To our knowledge, no explanation was ever proposed to account for such a phenomenon.
Yet the knowledge, the explanation, never quite fits the sight".
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In propounding this view which Croce, though he formulated it less clearly and precisely, basically shared Collingwood set in motion a controversy concerning knowledge and explanation in history that was central to much subsequent discussion.
To the best of our knowledge, this explanation was not suggested elsewhere.
However, knowledge by explanation probably does not reflect a conception of reason in itself as a distinct source of knowledge, an idea familiar from Western rationalism.
In some contexts, "knowledge by explanation" could conceivably amount to a priori knowledge; "a circle is nowhere straight" (A98) might be an example.
Medical function was associated by respondents with roles linked with power (leading, knowledge, decision, explanation) whereas paramedical function was associated with roles linked with care (perception, account, spokesperson) (Fig. 1).
In many biological contexts, such as developmental biology, the intellectual aim is to explain phenomena instantiated in many organisms; and the use of model organisms is predicated on this aim.[13] Any version of epistemic reductionism has to address this feature of scientific knowledge and explanation to be adequate.
