But through his efforts to work out the psychology that could be appealed to by such inner explanations, Dilthey came to modify some of his basic assumptions.
One explanation offered for this tangled state of affairs is bureaucratic warfare; a more common explanation is that the Administration possesses a sound general policy but has failed to work out the details.
What this suggests, and what in fact we have independent reason to think, is that on Epicurus' view, once one is in a position adequately to explain sense-perception, one will then also be in a position to work out an explanation of intellectual cognition, by appropriately extending the explanation of sense-perception.
I ask what the light-bulb moment with that was, and he launches into a long explanation of how they worked out the perfect way to cook grouse, how it should be poached first in seasoned chicken stock, and then served with lots of bright fresh vegetables.
It began, "Do physicists need empirical evidence to confirm their theories?" In other words, once you work out a theoretical explanation for how Nature works, do you need evidence to prove it?
Less than a month later, Dr. Leggett had worked out an explanation for the strange properties.
In 1959, just 2 years after physicists worked out that explanation for superconductivity, some of them proposed that similar pairing may happen inside incredibly hot, hugely pressurized neutron stars.
In 1997, he worked out a provocative explanation for the abnormally speedy drift of continental plates about the same time as the Cambrian explosion: Earth's rotational axis had tipped over by as much as 90°, Kirschvink proposed.
It's a scene that's kept coming back to me over the years, and in the end I've worked out a reasonable explanation.
It is in the Ideas for a Descriptive and Analytic Psychology of 1894 that Dilthey works out his explanation-understanding distinction.
