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The main rationale of the invention and test of hypotheses, laws, and theories, is the solution to why-problems, i.e. the explanation of facts and their patterns. We do not rest content with finding facts but wish to know why they should occur rather than not; and we do not even rest content with establishing explanatory constant conjunctions of facts but attempt to discover the mechanism explaining such correlations.
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Bunge, M. (1967). Explanation. In: Scientific Research II. Studies in the Foundations Methodology and Philosophy of Science, vol 3/2. Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-642-48138-3_1
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