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Philosophy of science

the view that science explains by deriving many phenomena from a few argument patterns, reducing what must be taken as brute fact.

In philosophy of science, explanatory unification refers to the view that science explains by deriving many phenomena from a few argument patterns, reducing what must be taken as brute fact. This meaning comes from Kitcher (1981) in Philosophy of Science.[1]

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References

Kitcher, P. (1981). Explanatory Unification. Philosophy of Science, 48(4), 507-531. https://doi.org/10.1086/289019

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