• A good explanation is precise.
  • Meaning its parts cannot easily be replaced or changed without changing the thing the explanation is explaning or finger-moon
  • the-difference-that-makes-a-difference
  • hard to vary
  • only then it matters wether it's testable
    • because explanations that are easy to vary have it easy with falsifications
  • the search for hard to vary explanation is the basis for all progress
    • it's the basic regulating principle of the Enlightenment
  • two approached blind science progress
    1. the untestable theories
    2. explanationless theories
  • The truth consist of hard to vary assertions about reality, is the most important fact about the universe.
    • a fact that is itself unseen
      • pure-abstractions
• A bad explanation
  • easy to vary

Lookup

• Explorable Explanations
• Explorable Explanations
• Explained Visually
• David Deutsch: A new way to explain explanation | TED Talk
  • or "The Nature of Scientific Explanations"