Explicanda

What an Explanation purports to explain.

Example: apparent designs in the biosphere are the explicanda of Darwin's evolution theory. Identifying the right explicanda is itself a creative act — a Conjecture about what needs explaining.

Connections

• •Defined relative to explanations — every explanation has explicanda
• •Identifying them requires Creativity and Conjecture
• •Problems often arise from puzzling explicanda
• •Related to Phenomenology — mapping observations to models
• •Evidence provides data that explanations must account for