Before revision: In scientific method Carl Gustav Hempel and Paul Oppenheim (1948), in their deductive-nomological model of scientific explanation, motivated the distinction between explanans and explanandum in order to answer why-questions, rather than simply what-questions: Specifically, they define the concepts as follows: The crucial comment, with respect to the scientific method, is given as follows: Other examples Constitutum that which gets made up, constituted, e.g.
After revision: In scientific method Carl Gustav Hempel and Paul Oppenheim (1948), in their deductive-nomological model of scientific explanation, motivated the distinction between explanans and explanandum in order to answer why-questions, rather than simply what-questions: Specifically, they define the concepts as follows: The crucial comment, with respect to the scientific method, is given as follows: Constitutum that which gets made up, constituted, e.g.