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(1967) Scientific research II, Dordrecht, Springer.

Explanation

Mario Bunge

pp. 3-65

The main rationale of the invention and test of hypotheses, laws, and theories, is the solution to why-problems, i.e. the explanation of facts and their patterns. We do not rest content with finding facts but wish to know why they should occur rather than not; and we do not even rest content with establishing explanatory constant conjunctions of facts but attempt to discover the mechanism explaining such correlations.

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DOI: 10.1007/978-3-642-48138-3_1

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Bunge, M. (1967). Explanation, in Scientific research II, Dordrecht, Springer, pp. 3-65.

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