On the D-N Model of Scientific Explanation

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This paper discusses the D-N model of scientific explanation. It is suggested that explanation is a part of assertive discourse where certain principles must be observed. Then use is made of the relation between the informative content and logical content of a sentence (as shown, for instance, by Popper) to draw some of the conditions necessary for a sound model. It is claimed that the conditions of the model proposed in the present paper exhaust the insights of the papers in the literature, solve the difficulties encountered by other authors, but have some damaging consequences on the D-N model of scientific explanation.

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1966Aspects of Scientific Explanation.1948Studies in the Logic of Explanation 1963CONJECTURES AND REFUTATIONS 1954Scientific Explanation 1942Introduction to Semantics.1990A Logic of Scientific Discovery 1961Hempel and Oppenheim on Explanation 1963On the Logical Conditions of Deductive Explanation

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