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We have an obsession with asking “why” maybe it’s in our nature we see kids doing this all the time - though there is a part usually when the questions break down; what if it’s ok at some points in the question to say there is no explanation or just reference stories as they don’t explain what is the case
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There is a tacit yet fundamental assumption underlying 'why' questions, namely a model of reality consisting of a cascade of discrete events, each caused by the one preceding. In reality, most of what transpires does so continuously in time - just one of the many reasons to prefer posing 'how' questions.
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