Explanation, Contrast, and the Primacy of Practice

European Journal of Philosophy 22 (1):82-95 (2011)
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: The common practice of giving (comparing, rejecting and inferring) explanations of phenomena is at the root of articulate learning, including the enterprises we collect under the noun ‘science’. The way that practice privileges a single item from the myriad relevant to any phenomenon tells us something about articulateness itself

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