| Explanation holds only when the explanans is conceptually related to the explanandum, and this can occur only at the same level of function. |
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| As it happens, clouds are natural candidates for the explanans in a scientific account. |
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| The discussion thus divides between thermodynamics being an explanandum or explanans. |
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| Insofar as the explanandum describes an event that occurred during the history of the world, its derivation thereby implies the explanans has empirical content. |
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| So this argument for perceptualism proposes an explanans to a non-neutral explanandum. |
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| Both remembering and forgetting are conceived and applied in an almost mechanistic way, as an explanans instead of an explanandum. |
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| Acknowledging the distinction problematizes both the explanandum of species cohesion and the explanans of gene flow that are central to the view discussed here. |
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