Explaining Contrastive Facts

Analysis 47 (1):35-37 (1987)
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Are explanations contrastive? I argue that any contrastive argument and can be reduced to a non-contrastive one, and hence a theory of explanation need not treat them as an additional kind of explanation.

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David-Hillel Ruben
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