Dos modelos de la explicación científica: inferencias y reconstrucciones
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Álvarez Bautista, Juan Ramón
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Journal article
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Spanish; Castilian
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text (article)
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Universidad de León: Servicio de Publicaciones 1994
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Contextos ISSN 0212-6192 Nº 23-24, 1994, pags. 287-312
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This article deals with two models of scientific explanation. The first, very well known in the tradition of the philosophy of science, construes explanation as an inferential procedure wherein the explanandum follows, as a conclusion thereof, from an explanans consisting of laws and data (antecedent conditions). The second conceives explanation as a reconstruction of deviating observed morphologies generated by the application of laws (of type 2) to basic morphologies constructed by means of laws of principles (of type I). It is shown that in the fully developed form of the former and in the different version of the latter inference and (re)construction are conjoined in a way that provides a less simplified structure of explanation.