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Scientific explanation

An account of how or why something happens. A good one explains many different things at once - puddles, washing, sea salt - and makes predictions you can test.

Depth 1 · Foundation

You can tell an explanation from a description, and say what makes one explanation better than another.

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  1. 1

    Foundation

    You can tell an explanation from a description, and say what makes one explanation better than another.

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    HypothesisAn explanation is a hypothesis about how something happens.

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What's still between you and Scientific explanation, depth 1, in the order you can learn it.

  1. 1BeliefDepth 1 · Foundation · Epistemology
  2. 2KnowledgeDepth 1 · Foundation · Epistemology
  3. 3Good reasonsDepth 1 · Foundation · Epistemology
  4. 4PerceptionDepth 1 · Foundation · Epistemology
  5. 5ObservationDepth 1 · Foundation · Philosophy of Science
  6. 6HypothesisDepth 1 · Foundation · Philosophy of Science
  7. 7Scientific explanationDepth 1 · Foundation · Philosophy of Science

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