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Explanation Types According to Tania Lombrozo in Explanation and Abductive Inference, there are three main types of explanation: mechanistic, functional / teleological, and formal. Lombrozo uses tires to demonstrate the three explanatory appeals. I will adapt this demonstration, but with a wooden wheel made from a solid panel. Consider the following situation: Alice has a large crate of apples in Atlanta, and wants to deliver this crate to Bob in Barnesville....