"That’s a description dad. I wanted an explanation." It might be helpful to explain that a description at one level is an explanation at the next level up. F

"That’s a description dad. I wanted an explanation." It might be helpful to explain that a description at one level is an explanation at the next level up. For example with gravity, the description of the force between masses (etc.) is (part of) the explanation of the observed motions of the planets (etc.). At the very bottom, at the most fundamental level, we might have only description.