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    It is not the case that Explanatory empiricism conflicts with Aristotle's conception of scientific explanation

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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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    • 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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