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Since Professor Greeno’s paper is, to my mind, both philosophically interesting and somewhat technical, it seems to me that the most useful function I can serve as a commentator is to try to provide some of the background necessary to understand the paper, and to attempt to put his discussion in some philosophical perspective. My main aim will be to relate his discussion to the issues that have been at the forefront of the philosophical discussion of scientific explanation in recent years.
Although Professor Greeno’s paper is the main paper in this symposium, these comments were presented first in order to provide background for his discussion.
The author wishes to express gratitude to the National Science Foundation for support of research on statistical explanation.
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Salmon, W.C. (1971). Explanation and Relevance: Comments on James G. Greeno’s ‘Theoretical Entities in Statistical Explanation’. In: Buck, R.C., Cohen, R.S. (eds) PSA 1970. Boston Studies in the Philosophy of Science, vol 8. Springer, Dordrecht. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-94-010-3142-4_2
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