Better deductive explanation?

Zeitschrift Für Allgemeine Wissenschaftstheorie 14 (2):350-353 (1983)
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I argue that the reasonable quest of looking for, and the desirable end of having better explanation of particular events are not allowed for by the deductive account of explanation except by total replacement of one theory by another. The article is also a trivialization of the deductive conception of complete explanation

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On the d-n model of scientific explanation.I. A. Omer - 1970 - Philosophy of Science 37 (3):417-433.
Morgan on deductive explanation: A rejoinder. [REVIEW]Raimo Tuomela - 1976 - Journal of Philosophical Logic 5 (4):527 - 543.

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