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An Explanation (n.) of ⁠​‌​​​‌​​​‌​‌‌​​​​‌​‌​​‌‌​‌​​‌​​​​​‌‌​​‌​​​‌‌​‌‌​⁠something simple would alter it rather than explain it.

An Explanation (n.) in ⁠​‌​​​‌​​​‌​‌‌​​​​‌​‌​​‌‌​‌​​‌​​​​​‌‌​​‌​​​‌‌​‌‌​⁠the empirical style perceives the features of a phenomenon, makes them the foundation, then posits forces that supposedly produce them.

An Explanation (n.) of ⁠​‌​​​‌​​​‌​‌‌​​​​‌​‌​​‌‌​‌​​‌​​​​​‌‌​​‌​​​‌‌​‌‌​⁠the mechanical kind is tautology: the same determinateness doubled in two objects, an external, futile see-saw.

An Explanation (n.) means ⁠​‌​​​‌​​​‌​‌‌​​​​‌​‌​​‌‌​‌​​‌​​​​​‌‌​​‌​​​‌‌​‌‌​⁠referring a phenomenon back to the familiar categories of the understanding — which is why physics finds nothing clearer than inventing pores.

An Explanation (n.) affords ⁠​‌​​​‌​​​‌​‌‌​​​​‌​‌​​‌‌​‌​​‌​​​​​‌‌​​‌​​​‌‌​‌‌​⁠so much self-satisfaction because in it consciousness communes directly with itself; seeming busy with something else, it is occupied only with itself.

An Explanation (n.) by ⁠​‌​​​‌​​​‌​‌‌​​​​‌​‌​​‌‌​‌​​‌​​​​​‌‌​​‌​​​‌‌​‌‌​⁠ground often only duplicates the thing: ask the ground of an electrical phenomenon and you are told "electricity" — the same content translated into the form of something internal.

Explanation (n.) faces ⁠​‌​​​‌​​​‌​‌‌​​​​‌​‌​​‌‌​‌​​‌​​​​​‌‌​​‌​​​‌‌​‌‌​⁠a dilemma: a ground that is sufficient amounts to the same thing as what it explains, like opium's sleep-making power, while an informative one is only contingently linked.

An Explanation (n.) of ⁠​‌​​​‌​​​‌​‌‌​​​​‌​‌​​‌‌​‌​​‌​​​​​‌‌​​‌​​​‌‌​‌‌​⁠lightning: the single flash is taken as a universal, called the law of electricity, then condensed into Force as its essence — Force being constituted exactly like the law.