Instructions: In your own words, answer or explain the following. Your answers can serve as a brief summary for chapter 3.

1. What is a scientific explanation?

2. What are the two basic ways in which theories differ from hypotheses?

3. How does the claim that two sorts of events are correlated differ from the claim that they are related as cause to effect?

4. What is the difference between a proximate and a remote cause?

5. Briefly state what are the basic features of the following types of explanation:

a. Cause and Effect

b. Causal Mechanics

c. Underlying Processes

d. Laws

e. Function

6. What is Occam's Razor and how does it apply to competing explanations?

7. What does it mean to say that certain elements of a description are theory-laden?

Attachment:- Chapter 3.rar