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  Dennis Hackethal commented on idea #4311.

Why not? Does an explanation need a "because".

#4311·Dirk MeulenbeltOP, about 4 hours ago

Yeah explanations answer ‘how’ or ‘why’ questions. Popper wrote:

In seeking pure knowledge our aim is, quite simply, to understand, to answer how-questions and why-questions. These are questions which are answered by giving an explanation. Thus all problems of pure knowledge are problems of explanation.

Karl Popper, Objective Knowledge, chapter 7

‘All swans are white’ is like saying 2 + 2 = 4. It predicts a result given a theory of addition. It does not state the theory.

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