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by latexr 819 days ago
> Explanations and speculation: are they mutually exclusive?

Yes. You only need to speculate when you don’t have a firm explanation.

> disprove the author's explanation

Speculation is “the forming of a theory or conjecture without firm evidence”, which is what the author is doing. They’re not explaining, they’re guessing at a reason.