Remote causes, bad explanations?

By J. Bouwel, E. Weber. 2002

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• Explanation in Artificial Intelligence: Insights from the Social Sciences (2017, background): “7, 73, 69]. In such cases, people expect to observe a particular event, but then observe another, with the observed event being the fact and the expected event being the foil. 16 Van Bouwel and Weber [175] dene four types of explanatory question, three of which are contrastive: Plain fact: Why does ”
• Generating Counterfactual and Contrastive Explanations using SHAP (2019, background): “There has been study on the typology of alternative questions by Van Bouwel and Weber [Van Bouwel and Weber, 2002]: – P-contrast: Why does object a have property P, rather than property Q?”