Mathematical explanation
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Mark Steiner
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Article
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1978
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Springer Netherlands
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English
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Philosophers have long pondered explanation in the natural sciences. If they have ignored it in the mathematical sciences, blame lies perhaps with a lingering distinction between 'matters of fact' and 'relations among ideas', the corollary being that mathematics (belonging to the latter class) has n