id author title date pages extension mime words sentences flesch summary cache txt work_tzeeoomruvdateoyr7mcl7xpum Darren Bradley Should Explanations Omit the Details? 2018 37 .pdf application/pdf 11118 1476 77 There is a widely shared belief that the higher level sciences can provide better explanations than that higher level explanations are better because they omit details. provides better explanations than higher level science. examples to argue that omitting details improves an explanation, and that higher level explanations lower level explanations.1 In this section I will explain the opposing arguments, then suggest how they a preference for logical strength explains our judgments about omitting details and higher level (A) We can generate a higher level explanation by omitting details of the chemical, Higher level laws9 generated by omitting details in the antecedent (A) are logically stronger than lower So I will argue that omitting details in the antecedent of the law improves the explanation provide better explanations; higher level links formed by using functional predicates provide worse The main point remains に omitting details from the antecedent of the link improves the explanation. ./cache/work_tzeeoomruvdateoyr7mcl7xpum.pdf ./txt/work_tzeeoomruvdateoyr7mcl7xpum.txt