1. Science is explained as a fact by taking a general law and deriving the fact depending on the circumstances of the fact. Facts are taken from the before event and by the after event.
2. Misconceptions:
a. Science describes rather than explain.
b. Sciences explains the strange with the familiar.
c. Science explanation is not the same as "understanding."
d. Scientific explanation does not need to be casual.
3. General law is deduced from a broader view rather than induced from experiment.
4. Explanations depend on the person. It is based on the perception of the person.
5. Explanatory reductions are economic ways of describing phenomena.
6. Scientific explanation requires the concepts of a system.
7. The theory of emergence is used to explain the how anything never came into this world because one can predict the sum of something combined, even though there are two separate entities.
8. Theory and observation are independent from each other because observation does not constitute a theory.
9. Scientific explanation is theoretically identical to prediction because if something can be predicted, that means that there is an understanding to how that something works. Abel argues that explanation does not need to predict anything in understanding it.
10. Abel means that many factors influence the progression of science which does not make it clear cut, but can take many directions
11.The situations that require explanation are situations that seem "natural" to us.
12. The human element cannot be eliminated from the process of scientific explanation because we provide all the rules and create the laws.
13. This does hold true in history because history is always changing depending on new information being found.
