linkedin post 2021-05-23 05:07:17

THE LOGICAL STACK. “Second, this thought is indeed questionable! After all, one can explain a particular fact; and one can ask for an explanation of a law. Agreed, the explanation of a particular fact will typically invoke another such fact (usually an earlier one, as in what philosophers call ‘causal explanation’), and one can ask for an explanation of that fact—so that a regress beckons, and one is tempted to think that one must eventually accept a ‘mere happenstance’.”

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