Proces wyjaśniania a rewizja wiedzy na przykładzie odkrycia zjawiska kardioprotekcji

The purpose of the present paper is to analyze the knowledge revision that occurred in the process of explanation an abnormal phenomenon in cardiology. S. Bromberg’s description of abnormic laws will provide the point of departure for the present analysis. It will be shown here that in the example the revision of knowledge resulted in formulating an abnormic law that deviated from the empirical law in cardiology. T. Kuipers’ and A. Wisniewski’s ideas of explanation by specyfication will be used for reconstructing the example in question