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223 | Tania Lombrozo on What Explanations Are
Sean Carroll's Mindscape: Science, Society, Philosophy, Culture, Arts, and Ideas
The Bottoming Out of Explanations
When you get a satisfying explanation, that doesn't stop inquiry. One place where questioning might stop is where you can't imagine a plausible other way that things could be. So in order to ask a question like, why is the sky blue, it seems like on some level you have to represent the possibility that could have been non-blue. It's only once you recognize this alternative possibility that you're able to ask the question.
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