The Basic Idea of Predictive Reasoning

Rationalliss: While you can predict things without really knowing why that pattern a is is exists in the world, science adds an extra layer of explanation. And models are extremely important for reasoning; they allow you to reason about counterfactual states of affairs or how the world could be, not how the world is. We have commitments that we try and hold that relate to our understanding of how we would like the world to be,. Not how the world necessarily is.