{"id":7914,"date":"2019-05-22T16:02:01","date_gmt":"2019-05-22T16:02:01","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.lancaster.ac.uk\/fas\/psych\/glossary\/explanans_and_explanandum\/"},"modified":"2019-05-22T16:02:01","modified_gmt":"2019-05-22T16:02:01","slug":"explanans_and_explanandum","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.lancaster.ac.uk\/fas\/psych\/glossary\/explanans_and_explanandum\/","title":{"rendered":"Explanans and explanandum"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>A part of the formal structure of scientific explanation. &nbsp;The explanandum `or conclusion is the fact to be explained, while the explanans is the explanatory account or argument that rationalizes the explanandum (i.e., an account used to answer the why question). &nbsp;This distinction provides the means for identifying different types of scientific explanations.&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>See Deductive-nomological model, <a href=\"explanation\">Explanation<\/a>, <a href=\"prediction_and_explanation\">Prediction and explanation<\/a><\/p>\n<p><\/p>\n<p><\/p>\n<p><\/body><\/html><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A part of the formal structure of scientific explanation. &nbsp;The explanandum `or conclusion is the fact to be explained, while the explanans is the explanatory account or argument that rationalizes the explanandum (i.e., an account used to answer the why question). &nbsp;This distinction provides the means for identifying different types of scientific explanations.&nbsp; See Deductive-nomological &hellip; <\/p>\n<p class=\"link-more\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.lancaster.ac.uk\/fas\/psych\/glossary\/explanans_and_explanandum\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;Explanans and explanandum&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[2],"class_list":["post-7914","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized","tag-glossary","entry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.lancaster.ac.uk\/fas\/psych\/glossary\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7914","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.lancaster.ac.uk\/fas\/psych\/glossary\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.lancaster.ac.uk\/fas\/psych\/glossary\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.lancaster.ac.uk\/fas\/psych\/glossary\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.lancaster.ac.uk\/fas\/psych\/glossary\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=7914"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.lancaster.ac.uk\/fas\/psych\/glossary\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7914\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.lancaster.ac.uk\/fas\/psych\/glossary\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=7914"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.lancaster.ac.uk\/fas\/psych\/glossary\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=7914"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.lancaster.ac.uk\/fas\/psych\/glossary\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=7914"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}