When you have a deep explanation sure there are points that tell that it’s deep. However I wouldn’t exactly use the word “evidence” for that.
I think it’s pretty hard to define “mathematical cleaniness”. One is almost guaranteed to discriminate against undiscovered forms of math.
There is also the problem of where can you stop if matter of fact is not a good stopping point. That is if I have a theory that makes perfect predictions and someone comes and says “but you theory doesn’t explain the phenomena” under which kind of conditions can I say “no, it does explain the phenomena?”. I am reminded of quantum mechanics where there exist multiple formulaitons which are proven to be equivalent. Would one have to start discrimanting between these which are “explanining” formulations and which are “non-explaining” formulations? What would be the critera to raise one above others?
It would also be weird if biology was incomplete until it answered the quesition “why life?” in the “meaning of life” sense. That is other disciplines than science make use of explanation and it’s not immidiately obvious which parts of that cluster is relevant to science.
When you have a deep explanation sure there are points that tell that it’s deep. However I wouldn’t exactly use the word “evidence” for that.
I think it’s pretty hard to define “mathematical cleaniness”. One is almost guaranteed to discriminate against undiscovered forms of math.
There is also the problem of where can you stop if matter of fact is not a good stopping point. That is if I have a theory that makes perfect predictions and someone comes and says “but you theory doesn’t explain the phenomena” under which kind of conditions can I say “no, it does explain the phenomena?”. I am reminded of quantum mechanics where there exist multiple formulaitons which are proven to be equivalent. Would one have to start discrimanting between these which are “explanining” formulations and which are “non-explaining” formulations? What would be the critera to raise one above others?
It would also be weird if biology was incomplete until it answered the quesition “why life?” in the “meaning of life” sense. That is other disciplines than science make use of explanation and it’s not immidiately obvious which parts of that cluster is relevant to science.