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    Supports→Metaphysical explanation being pragmatic does not imply that metaphysical explanation is wholly unconstrained by worldly dependence

    The correctness of particular metaphysical explanations is accounted for (in part) by appeal to worldly dependence relations

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    There has, as of yet, been comparatively little discussion of pragmatic accounts of metaphysical explanation in the literature. One exception is Thompson (2019), who develops an account along the lines described above, where metaphysical explanations are pairs of context-sensitive questions and answers. Because the role of context is ineliminable, there is no sense to be made of a notion of metaphysical explanation free from pragmatic constraints. However, Thompson accounts for the correctness o

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