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    Supports→Nominalists can reject the One Over Many argument regardless of which nominalist view they adopt

    An explanation is uninformative precisely when it posits entities whose explanatory role can be fully discharged by the explanandum's own structural features, as Occam's razor demands.

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    Key Terms

    Entities(the things being discussed as having or lacking properties)
    Things that exist—objects, people, ideas, or anything else that has properties and can be described.
    Explanatory role(what truth's definition should preserve)
    The ability of a concept or theory to help us understand why things work the way they do.
    Occam's Razor(Philosophy of science)
    A principle favoring more ontologically parsimonious theories over less parsimonious ones.
    Structural features(as used in logic and philosophy)
    The basic pattern or framework that makes something work the way it does—like how a building's structure determines its shape.
    Uninformative(describing what the appeal to totality does)

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    Failing to provide useful information or clarity; not actually explaining or helping us understand something.
    explanandum(Methodological debate between naturalism and anti-naturalism)
    The phenomenon to be explained; anti-naturalists hold that normative terms appear in both the explaining and the explained elements of social inquiry.
    explanation(philosophy of science / epistemology)
    A concept whose meaning entails that if one theory is more explanatory than another, the former must be more informative than the latter
    posits(Reichenbach's later view on induction)
    Claims made without guarantee of truth, used by Reichenbach as a basis for inductive inference when no stronger justification is available

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