Explaining Social Reality
Explanation is the practice of (extracting) identifying regularities in the connection between observable effects (phenomena) and the underlying ontology (states, structures, and dynamics), making these connections explicit, clear, and intelligible, thereby enabling answers to why things are the way they are and not otherwise. Another way to see it is - removing the magic from the underlying ontology → by compressing it - reducing it to the core - to what’s matter.
Guiding Questions
- How to take notes on Explanation, and use them to reason about explaining social reality?