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Re: What I believe an explanation is!

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Originally Posted by Doctordick View Post
And what distinction are you referring to?
distinction to the info (the thing that needs to be explained).
distinction, differentiation, discrimination, they meant the same thing.

we rely or base on our cognizant ability to tell us what is real and unreal or what can be known. so whether we use an electron microscope or the Hubble telescope, perceiving must be the basis of access to these information.

all explanation is a self referencing system. as cognizing entity, we set a point of reference to discriminate from all other points. this self referencing system can now recognize pattern, order, hierarchies, relationships of the reference point against the rest of the points., then we can go on to identify, categorize these patterns. with this principle, all things can be generated, explained, conceptualized.


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