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    Lange's argument is flawed because an instance of a universal generalization can help explain the universal generalization

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    • 1.Aristotle's account of epagoge treats induction as genuinely explanatory, grounding universal claims in the necessity revealed through particular cases.
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    • 2.If particulars can reveal the necessity underlying a universal, then instances bear an explanatory relationship to the generalization, not merely evidential support.
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    • 3.Lange's modal account of explanation requires that explanations cite what makes something necessary, and paradigmatic instances can disclose that modal structure.
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    • 1.Inference to the best explanation permits that the universal generalization is best explained by the pattern instantiated across its cases, including particular instances.
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    • 2.Philip Kitcher's unificationist model entails that explaining particular instances and explaining the generalization are part of the same systematizing derivation, making the direction of explanation bilateral.
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    • 1.Lange's argument assumes that an instance of a universal generalization cannot help explain the universal generalization
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    • 2.There are positive considerations showing that inductive arguments are explanatory
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    • 3.If inductive arguments are explanatory, instances can contribute to explaining universal generalizations
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    Lange’s argument has been also contested in several recent articles such as Hoeltje et al. 2013, Baldwin 2016, and Dougherty 2017. Hoeltje et al. reject what they see as an unacknowledged assumption in Lange’s argument, namely that a universal sentence explains its instances. Baldwin offers positive considerations as to why inductive arguments are explanatory and he also focuses his criticisms of Lange’s argument on the latter’s assumption that an instance of a universal generalization cannot he
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