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Concreteness and abstraction in everyday explanation

A number of philosophers argue for the value of abstraction in explanation. According to these prescriptive theories, an explanation becomes superior when it leaves out details that make no difference to the occurrence of the event one is trying to explain (the explanandum). Abstract explanations ar...

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Autores principales: Bechlivanidis, Christos, Lagnado, David A., Zemla, Jeffrey C., Sloman, Steven
Formato: Online Artículo Texto
Lenguaje:English
Publicado: Springer US 2017
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Acceso en línea:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC5643351/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/28497364
http://dx.doi.org/10.3758/s13423-017-1299-3

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