id author title date pages extension mime words sentences flesch summary cache txt work_7sozkwoatngvpochmfr7ef3fn4 B. A. Brody Towards an Aristotelean Theory of Scientific Explanation 1972 15 .pdf application/pdf 6999 398 65 not as good an explanation of the law in question (that sodium normally combines And similarly, a deductive-nomological explanation of a law is a satisfactory explanation of that law when (besides meeting all of Hempel's requirements) every event which is a case of the law to be explained is caused by an event The trouble with this account is that it incorrectly presupposes that it is the atomic structure of sodium and chlorine that cause them to combine in a one-to-one demonstration can be used as an explanation (can provide us with "scientific knowledge") when at least one of the explanans essential to the derivation states, that a say that it is an essential property), while the other of our explanans, the one describing the way in which sodium combines with bromine, does not. If our explanans contain a statement describing essential properties (e.g. sodium has the following atomic structure . ./cache/work_7sozkwoatngvpochmfr7ef3fn4.pdf ./txt/work_7sozkwoatngvpochmfr7ef3fn4.txt