Causality and Unification: How Causality Unifies Statistical Regularities
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Causality and Unification: How Causality Unifies Statistical Regularities
Two key ideas of scientific explanation −explanation as causal information and explanation as unification– have frequently been set into mutual opposition. This paper proposes a “dialectical solution” to this conflict, by arguing that causal explanations are preferable to non-causal ones, because they lead to a higher degree of unification at the level of explaining statistical regularities. Th...
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عنوان ژورنال: THEORIA. An International Journal for Theory, History and Foundations of Science
سال: 2015
ISSN: 2171-679X,0495-4548
DOI: 10.1387/theoria.11913