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Some Remarks on the Logic of Explanation

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  14 March 2022

Lars Skarsgård
Lars Skarsgård*
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University of Gothenburg
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These considerations on Carl G. Hempel's and Paul Oppenheim's lucid article “Studies in the Logic of Explanation'”—LE for short—are an attempt to exploit some of the considerable advances made there. I wish to show how these advances may be incorporated into a technique for the investigation of problems of the philosophy of science, which has been called discourse-analytic. This discipline consists essentially in a technique of examining actual texts provided by specialists, such as physicists, psychologists, historians, etc., the task being to discover fundamental logical and semantical features in the discourses under investigation. I am preparing a book on historical explanation, which will contain such case studies of historical texts.

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Research Article
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Philosophy of Science , Volume 25 , Issue 3 , July 1958 , pp. 199 - 207
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Copyright © Philosophy of Science Association 1958

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