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work_22ztutcuozhnbhqztyy5bc4knm	Alexander Reutlinger	Abstract versus Causal Explanations?	2016	37	.pdf	application/pdf	9292	553	44	non-causal by virtue of being abstract, and, respectively, what makes an explanation scientific causal explanations relying on the description of 'non-abstract' and detailed The core idea of the abstractness assumption is that explanations are non-causal assumption is the following: an explanation is non-causal to the extent that its explanans questions depend on the specific view of causation or causal explanation one takes? We think that abstractness is not a defining feature of non-causal explanation, and second, abstract explanations can be and often are causally explanatory according to are already arguing against abstractness as a useful way to distinguish causal and noncausal explanations. the explanans of a non-causal explanation abstracts away from specific details of the explanation is to abstract away from the microphysical causal details of condensed matter commitments regarding causation and causal explanation, abstractness will not serve as a Moreover, Batterman's characterization of causal explanation as non-abstract 	./cache/work_22ztutcuozhnbhqztyy5bc4knm.pdf	./txt/work_22ztutcuozhnbhqztyy5bc4knm.txt