The roles of possibility and mechanism in narrative explanation
There is a fairly long-standing distinction between what are called the ideographic as opposed to nomothetic sciences. The nomothetic sciences, such as physics, offer explanations in terms of the laws and regular operations of nature. The ideographic sciences, such as natural history (or, more contr...
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University of Chicago Press
2019
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