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But the answer to "why" is always gobbledygook. We try to answer how there is something instead of nothing. I do not think anyone can answer why it is flooding
by vaidhy 4y ago
But the answer to "why" is always gobbledygook. We try to answer how there is something instead of nothing. I do not think anyone can answer why it is flooding in Florida now. Many can answer the how, multiple levels deep.
'Why" is trying to assign a higher order causality and that is religion.
But, if you are using "why" as a way to probe into inner workings, here is one possible hypothesis - https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3SxowRIc20M&t=761s https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3SxowRIc20M&t=761s
- carrozo 4y agoThis was beautiful thank you.
- vehemenz 4y agoThe same point applies to the phrase "something rather than "nothing." It's not a general concern about "why" questions but a concern about applying quantification to non-specific things. Quantification in the abstract typically falls under mathematics. This is what we have numbers for. But people make sense of "something rather than nothing" as if it's more than abstraction. People think they understand what they're talking about, but they really don't (literally, not figuratively).