‘Explanation’ is from the Latin Ex-planationem: ‘to make plain, to flatten [planus].
Everyone wants one, feels obliged to ask for one and acts deprived if denied on.
An ‘Explanation’ flattens things out so that they fit within a Modeled-View. Just like plaining a piece of irregular wood.
In this tripped age where Reason is confounded with the Rational, the most insistent and socially-sanctified demand is for an ‘Explanation’.
‘Oh! That makes sense!’. In other words, an explanation falls in line, takes its assigned slot within the broad mix of paradigms, preferences, prejudices, conveniences and cultural cues that grant a view acceptance, and when tightly in conformance, applause.
When you say: ‘That explanation makes sense!’, it means it tucks nicely into your backpack, logically fits [i.e.,’is consistent’] within the umbrella of convention, views widely accepted as valid.
And the base of this umbrella is the presumption of an Independent [hence, separated] ‘Self’. The ‘Subject-Object’ Divide.
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