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The science of explanation exists due to human nature of curiosity which led to conception of theories like the deductive-nomological model. Humans strive to improve their strategic position in the world through prediction and controlling how things turn-out in future. Also, humans yearn to understand they live in and the existing phenomenon which has significantly contributed to the interminable science advancement. Since pre-history, scholars have strived to makes sense from these phenomena which bore to terms such as scientific explanation and empirical science trying to answer the why question. Hempel and other scientists developed the deductive-nomological model in the quest to answer some of the scientific phenomena like Newton’s law of gravity. The model uses an approach where the scientific explanations infer a statement describing the phenomena to be explained which is referred to as the “explanandum” from a statement known as “the explanans”. Notably, the explanandum is a deductive consequence of the explanans. Hempel (2002) argued that through experiments, one should be able to derive all possible deliverables and identify the solution for any doubts that may occur.