Philosophy 2300F/G Study Guide - Final Guide: Enumerative Induction, Bayesian Probability, Prior Probability
24 Mar 2016
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29. what conditions must an explanatory argument meet: the premises must include at least 1 general law, premises must be empirically testable. Rules out false non-explanations: identify one problem with the deductive nomological model of scienti c explanation. There seem to be perfectly good explanations that do not include general scienti c laws. Where did that ink stain come from. I knocked over an ink well that was sitting on my desk. It is a good explanation in the ordinary sense of the term: it helps us understand why there is an ink- stain on the carpet. But this isnt the goal of a scienti c explanation, scienti c explanations are supposed to achieve some measure of uni cation in our knowledge of the natural world. The explanation of the ink-stain doesnt seem to accomplish this: what is the agpole problem for the deductive nomological model of scienti c explanation.
