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How Close Does Scientific Explanation Relate to Understanding?——An Analysis Based on Some Important Models of Scientific Explanation

Zeng Guo-ping, Hang Yuan

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How close does scientific explanation relate to understanding?Some conclusions are reached by an analysis based on major models of scientific explanation:scientific understanding plays an important role not only in the precondition and the process of scientific explanation but also in the consequences of explanation.

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Key concepts: Scientific modelling, Precondition, Epistemology, Scientific progress, Process (computing), Scientific literature, Scientific evidence, Management science