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work_zc74kwvonjdgrm4hhlcepz23ay	M. Lange	What Makes a Scientific Explanation Distinctively Mathematical?	2012	27	.pdf	application/pdf	12452	941	55	'distinctively mathematical' explanations; they are non-causal scientific Although it has been suggested that distinctively mathematical explanations in science are 'non-causal', this idea requires careful elaboration (as distinctively mathematical explanations in science to be non-causal, then I have argued that an explanation that fails to cite any causes may nevertheless qualify as causal if it explains by describing the world's network of By the same token, some distinctively mathematical explanations, though non-causal, nevertheless happen to cite the explanandum's But in the distinctively mathematical explanation of Mother's failure, the fact that twentythree cannot be divided evenly by three does not possess its power to explain about the world's causal network per se is not responsible for its explanatory power in the distinctively mathematical scientific explanation. Furthermore, even if every distinctively mathematical explanation in science used no laws of nature, this feature would not distinguish is an ordinary, causal explanation, not distinctively mathematical.	./cache/work_zc74kwvonjdgrm4hhlcepz23ay.pdf	./txt/work_zc74kwvonjdgrm4hhlcepz23ay.txt