abstract explanations
abstract explanations
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This article focuses on a case that expert practitioners count as an explanation: a mathematical account of Plateau’s laws for soap films. I argue that this example falls into a class of explanations that I call abstract explanations. Abstract explanations involve an appeal to a more abstract entity than the state of affairs being explained. I show that the abstract entity need not be causally relevant to the explanandum for its features to be explanatorily relevant. However, it remains unclear how to unify abstract and causal explanations as instances of a single sort of thing. I conclude by examining the implications of the claim that explanations require objective dependence relations. If this claim is accepted, then there are several kinds of objective dependence relations.
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Christopher Pincock, Abstract Explanations in Science, The British Journal for the Philosophy of Science, Volume 66, Issue 4, December 2015, Pages 857–882, https://doi.org/10.1093/bjps/axu016
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Abstract reasoning tests are almost always a part of any job assessment or intelligence testing setup. You can use this test as part of aptitude test practice to make sure you are maximally prepared. The format of this test is similar to Raven’s progressive matrices.
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http://quod.lib.umich.edu/p/phimp/3521354.0015.003/18/–unsolvability-of-the-quintic-a-case-study-in-abstract?page=root;size=150;view=text
http://academic.oup.com/bjps/article/66/4/857/2330063
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