User:Gkochanowsky/explanatism

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Explanatism is a way of looking at knowledge as collections of known phenomenon and explanations of that known phenomena.

Phenomenon are anything that people can agree happened or exists in a consistent way. [This needs work. Must make a distinction between a thought and the thing. Investigate philosophies that make a distinction between thought and reality.]

One must take care not to confuse the explanation of a phenomena with the phenomena itself even though the explanation can affect how one views the phenomena.

For example, a person sees a burning bush that talks. That is the phenomenon. Saying that it was a manifistation of god is an explanation. The same phenomenon could be explained as a prank, or a hallucination. There are many other possible explanations some of which may differ from one another by only insignificant details.

All phenomena can be lumped together into something called a universe. It can also be called reality, existence, the cosmos, the whole shebang and so on. Explanations of the universe are called cosmologies.

Over the history of mankind there have been many proposed cosmologies.

The Genesis account in the bible is one such example.

proffered explanations for specific phenomena as well as the universe.

In the case of the universe such explanations are called cosmologies.