Because Without Cause
Because Without Cause
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因为无因
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2018
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Marc Lange
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Marc Lange
本章研究非因果的科学解释，这些解释的工作方式是描述由于某些事实（“约束”），巨人如何涉及比物理必然性更强的必然性，这些事实拥有比普通因果律更强的必然性。特别是，本章提供了一个解释优先顺序的解释约束。它检查了几个重要的例子解释的约束，区分他们的自然种类。它给出了一个帐户的意义上，约束是模态强于普通的因果律和帐户，为什么某些推论的约束完全从其他约束具有解释力，而其他缺乏解释力。
This chapter investigates non-causal scientific explanations that work by describing how the explanandum involves stronger-than-physical necessity by virtue of certain facts (“constraints”) that possess some variety of necessity stronger than ordinary causal laws possess. In particular, the chapter offers an account of the order of explanatory priority in explanations by constraint. It examines several important examples of explanations by constraint, distinguishing their natural kinds. It gives an account of the sense in which constraints are modally stronger than ordinary causal laws and an account of why certain deductions of constraints exclusively from other constraints possess explanatory power whereas others lack explanatory power.