Critical realism and analytic sociology support what can be called explanation by mechanism (EbM). EbM consists of … explanation because it does not give a description of how the proposed causal connection comes about. The mechanism thesis claims …

multidimensional analysis is business diagnosis. Diagnosis is defined as finding the “best†explanation of observed symptoms. Todayâ … conventional OLAP system with an explanation formalism, which mimics the work of business decision makers in diagnostic processes … is business diagnosis. Diagnosis is defined as finding the “best” explanation of observed symptoms. Today’s OLAP systems …

multidimensional analysis is business diagnosis. Diagnosis is defined as finding the “best” explanation of observed symptoms. Today … conventional OLAP system with an explanation formalism, which mimics the work of business decision makers in diagnostic processes …

on mechanistic research programmes and the contrastive counterfactual theory of explanation, we argue that explaining an … explanatory presupposition or providing a lower-level explanation does not necessarily constitute explanatory improvement …