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explanandum

the occurrence, phenomenon, etc, made plain in any explanation; the subject of an explanation. See EXPLANATION, COVERING-LAW MODEL AND DEDUCTIVE NOMOLOGICAL EXPLANATION, EXPLANANS.
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Aristotle gives two reasons for separating the appraisal of the explanandum from the appraisal of the explanation.
EXPLANATION AND METHOD IN EUDEMIAN ETHICS I.6
Thus the explanandum: A proper explanation of subjective reasons in terms of objective reasons must assign a numerical weight to all propositions that count as subjective reasons.
Objective morality, subjective morality and the explanatory question
Cuando pretendan explicar la conciencia fenomenica, tengan claro cual es su explanandum, y para ello creo que la bibliografia filosofica ayuda.
La ciencia y la mente conciente: entrevista a Maite Ezcurdia
What about the other account of the original explanandum? Is GE in a better position?
An evaluation of Kripke's account of the illusion of contingency
It must be clear that we are not denying the reality of Peacocke's explanandum here, i.e.
Troubles with Peacocke's rationalism. A critical study of The Realm of Reason
In the Phaedo, recollection has ordinary learning as its immediate explanandum and philosophical learning as its ultimate explanandum.
Phronesis: Vol. 50, No. 4, October 2005
Al tratar de abordar el problema, han surgido tentativas de solucion de variado cuno, incluyendo propuestas epifenomenistas (Bieri 1992), estrategias del explanandum dual (Marras 1998, 2000) y aun retornos a posiciones dualistas (Lowe 1999), entre otras.
La ineficacia causal de lo mental y el exito explicativo de la psicologia
An alternative form of the empirical argument switches the explanandum to prediction of the course of experience on a non-phenomenal basis (thus employing sP).
The Reliability of Sense Perception
The inference seems to rest on the following principle: in order to account for explanandum with type of structure S, we need to invoke explanans with structure S.
Connectionism and the language of thought
Pragmatically rationalizing explanations, on the other hand, account for the explanandum belief by describing how the belief is non-epistemically appropriate: believing what she does benefits the believer in some way that is not derivative of its status as true or epistemically justified.
Pragmatic believing and its explanation
Chapters 4 through 10 of Wedin's book are devoted to a full account of how the theory of the Categories serves as an explanandum for the theory of the Metaphysics.
Aristotle's Theory of Substance: The Categories and Metaphysics Zeta
That the Ageless Conundrum and the Great Contingency are inexplicable is in each case a direct consequence of the very conception of the putative explanandum, together with an appreciation of what types of explanation, if any, could be appropriate.
A reductio ad surdum? Field on the contingency of mathematical objects

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