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Thread #24567   Message #289144
Posted By: Wolfgang
01-Sep-00 - 08:16 AM
Thread Name: BS: Explaining the Unexplained
Subject: RE: BS: Explaining the Unexplained
There is something in the human personality that can't stand an unsolved mystery. I'm quite comfortable saying "I don't know why that happened,"

Jeri wrote in a post above, short and to the point.

In three words: Accepting the unexplained,
however, not Accepting the unexplainable. I can find no fault with the first formulation.

'Unexplainable' rules out that there might be an explanation well known but not to you; that there is an explanation which is not known yet, but will be entirely scientific if it's known; that there is a completely down to earth explanation which may never be found;(and many more)...what you have in mind is only one single of several possibilities.

Go on, but you'll have to stand analytical comment.

Wolfgang