id author title date pages extension mime words sentences flesch summary cache txt work_lgvvnva3cnatvm3ynem5bw2ety Paul A. Roth Essentially narrative explanations 2017 10 .pdf application/pdf 10831 855 53 This essay argues that narrative explanations prove uniquely suited to answering certain explanatory questions, and offers reasons why recognizing a type of statement that requires narrative explanations to explain, as a category narrative explanations exist in philosophical limbo. follows from the fact that a narrative constitutes both the explanandum and its relations to the explanansdstatements of the event epistemic insight narrative sentences reveal, viz., that human histories exist only as a product of a very special sort of retrospective beginning, middle, end structure unified by showing the development of a subject over time, and what a historical narrative contains narrative explanations create the explanandum event. for essentially narrative explanations as developed to this point. the event has no non-narrative explanation. narrative sentences have an explanation. Narrative explanation: the case of history. Description as justification in narrative explanation (Hilberg) Description as justification in narrative explanation (Hilberg) ./cache/work_lgvvnva3cnatvm3ynem5bw2ety.pdf ./txt/work_lgvvnva3cnatvm3ynem5bw2ety.txt