Three types of explanation

Philosophy of Science 44 (3):387-408 (1977)
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Several revisions of the Hempel and Oppenheim definition of explanation have been offered in recent years, and none have gone uncriticized in the literature. In the present paper it is argued that the difficulties involved with these attempts are based upon a confusion between three types of explanation, and that Professor David Kaplan's model of S-explanation provides a uniform treatment of all three types

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Studies in the logic of explanation.Carl Gustav Hempel & Paul Oppenheim - 1948 - Philosophy of Science 15 (2):135-175.
Aspects of Inductive Logic.J. Hintikka & P. Suppes - 1968 - British Journal for the Philosophy of Science 19 (1):73-81.
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Explanation revisited.David Kaplan - 1961 - Philosophy of Science 28 (4):429-436.

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