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covering-law model  

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  • The covering-law model is an early and influential model of scientific explanation that suggests that to explain a phenomenon is to show how a statement of that phenomenon can be derived using an argument that includes laws. Its chief advocate was the philosopher Carl Hempel. [Source: Encyclopedia of Philosophy and the Social Sciences; Covering-Law Model]

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