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    Explanatory empiricism conflicts with Aristotle's conception of scientific explanation

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    • 1.Aristotle's scientific explanation requires knowledge of essences via nous, a non-empirical rational intuition of necessary first principles.
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    • 2.Explanatory empiricism rejects any non-sensory epistemic faculty as a legitimate source of scientific knowledge.
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    • 3.Therefore, Aristotle's explanatory framework depends on a cognitive capacity that explanatory empiricism systematically excludes.
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    • 1.For Aristotle, genuine scientific knowledge (episteme) requires demonstrating why properties belong necessarily to natural kinds via their essences.
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    • 2.Explanatory empiricism, as articulated by van Fraassen, limits legitimate explanation to observable regularities and constructive empirical adequacy.
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    • 3.Aristotelian necessary causal connections between essences and properties are not reducible to observable regularities, making his explanatory model incompatible with empiricist constraints.
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    • 1.Explanatory empiricism holds that explanatory causal factors are hidden aspects of the natural world lying beneath observable reality
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    • 2.An explanatory empiricist denies we can know such hidden facts
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    • 3.Aristotle holds that the explanatory properties of things are open to view and not hidden
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    Note, too, that the category of explanatory empiricism suggests a particular view of scientific explanation. It suggests that the causal factors to which an explanation appeals will be hidden aspect of the natural world, facts which lie “beneath,” as it were, the observable reality of things. An explanatory empiricist denies we can know such facts. Aristotle is cautious regarding our ability to know about matters that cannot be directly observed. As he writes, when it comes to “matters inaccessi
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