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    Challenges→The principles of scientific explanation are not reached by any process of reasoning.

    If the principles underwriting scientific explanation require justificatory argument to show they apply to experience, they are reached through a reasoning process, contra the claim.

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    contra(as a Latin phrase introducing an opposing position)
    A Latin word meaning 'against'; used here to signal that the statement is disagreeing with Epstein's view.
    epistemology (implicit in 'the claim')(as used in philosophy of science)
    The branch of philosophy that asks how we know what we know and what counts as valid knowledge or proof.
    justificatory argument(as used in ethics and logic)
    A set of reasons given to explain why something should be believed or accepted as true or right.
    principles underwriting scientific explanation(as used in philosophy of science)
    The basic rules or foundations that scientists rely on to make sense of how the world works and explain why things happen.
    reasoning process

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