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work_kjdsrz7ykbbqfjozoci7ufojza	Jonah N. Schupbach	The Logic of Explanatory Power	2011	33	.pdf	application/pdf	8686	933	71	measure of explanatory power by proving several theorems, all of which show explanation – i.e., the degree of explanatory power that a particular explanans has over its explanation that tells us the explanatory power of a theory (explanans) relative to some parsimonious set of adequacy conditions is used to determine a measure of explanatory power a hypothesis may provide a powerful explanation of a surprising proposition, in our sense, and unique measure of explanatory power as stated in the following theorem (Proof in Appendix results in the following intuitive and simple measure of explanatory power:14 conditions of adequacy on any measure of explanatory power. (adding the condition that h does not have the maximal degree of explanatory power relative would expect the explanatory power of h relative to the new evidence e∧e′ to be greater than explanatory power in the following sense: In the wide space of cases where our conditions of	./cache/work_kjdsrz7ykbbqfjozoci7ufojza.pdf	./txt/work_kjdsrz7ykbbqfjozoci7ufojza.txt