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223 | Tania Lombrozo on What Explanations Are

Sean Carroll's Mindscape: Science, Society, Philosophy, Culture, Arts, and Ideas

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The Bottoming Out of Explanations

People have a hard time wrapping their heads around the question of why there is something rather than nothing./nPeople tend to think that scientific questions demand explanations more than religion questions./nVariation exists across cases in what people think is appropriate for inquiry and what is not.

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