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by gpderetta 2754 days ago
Why there should be a why?
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You don't get to know in advance which questions will pan out into answerable ones. You could answer "why should there be a why" to literally and question about why. In fact, you could have said that about the motion of the planets, right up until Newton - which shows that the category of things that can be answered like that contracts over time.
That's a how, not a why. Asking why is it worth the trouble ascribes intentionality to the universe where none is expected