The increasing preponderance of opinion that some natural phenomena can be explained mathematically has inspired a search for a viable account of distinctively mathematical explanation. Among the desiderata for an adequate account is that it should solve the problem of directionality —the reversals of distinctively mathematical explanations should not count as members among the explanatory fold but any solution must also avoid the exclusion of genuine explanations. In what follows, I introduce and defend what I refer to as a quasi-erotetic solution which provides a remedy to the problem in the form of an additional necessary condition on explanation.

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独特的数学解释和方向性问题：准色情解决方案

越来越多的观点认为某些自然现象可以用数学来解释，这激发了人们寻找一种可行的独特数学解释的解释。充分说明的需要之一是它应该解决方向性问题——独特的数学解释的逆转不应算作解释性折叠的成员，但任何解决方案也必须避免排除真正的解释。在下文中，我介绍并捍卫我所说的准色情解决方案，它以解释的附加必要条件的形式为问题提供了补救措施。