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Explanation is not always a profitable exercise. Sometimes the more one explains something, the more the listener doesn't understand it.

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Explanation is a model of intelligibility borrowed from the natural sciences and applied to the historical disciplines by positivist schools. 'Interpretation' on the other hand, is a derivative form of understanding.

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Explanation is often conflated with justification. Explaining why something happened is not the same as a justification for why it happened.

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