Erkenntnis 48 (1):61-83 (1998) |Abstract||The paper explicates
unique events and investigates their epistemology. Explications
of unique events as individuated, different, and emergent are
philosophically uninteresting. Unique events are topics of why-
questions that radically underdetermine all their potential
explanations. Uniqueness that is relative to a level of
scientific development is differentiated from absolute
uniqueness. Science eliminates relative uniqueness by discovery
of recurrence of events and properties, falsification of
assumptions of why-questions, and methodological simplification
e.g. by explanatory methodological reduction. Finally, an
overview of contemporary philosophical disputes that hinge on
issues of uniqueness emphasizes its philosophical significance.|
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