Mechanistic explanations can themselves be reconstructed as deductivearguments from laws governing component interactions, as Hempel and Oppenheim's 1948 framework allows multi-level subsumption.
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Mechanistic explanations(the main subject of the sentence)
Explanations that break down how something works by describing its smaller parts and how those parts interact with each other, like explaining how a clock works by describing its gears and springs.
Multi-level subsumption(what the 1948 framework allows)
The idea that you can explain something at one level (like how molecules work) by fitting it under rules from a bigger level (like how atoms work), and keep going up through multiple levels.