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    It is not the case that The explanatory demand is therefore satisfied by contextual narrative accounts without requiring the kind of exceptionless principles generalism posits.

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    • 1.Narrative accounts without principled constraints risk ad-hoc post-hoc reasoning that explains anything and therefore explains nothing.
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    • 2.Context-dependence alone provides no basis for distinguishing genuine explanations from mere descriptions of what happened.
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    • 3.If explanations need not reflect underlying principles, predictive power and applicability to novel cases become theoretically impossible.
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    • 1.Context-specific narratives capture causally relevant details that universal principles necessarily abstract away or ignore.
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    • 2.Human understanding of complex phenomena (ethics, history, psychology) typically requires grasping particular circumstances, not just rules.
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    • 3.Demanding exceptionless principles creates an artificial explanatory burden that nature may not actually impose.
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