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Why? Explanatory power is something we value and desire... ...There are no explanations in science. - C. van Fraassen Have you ever thought about the way your car works? The inner works of the engine, how does the fuel make it work, how does combustion lead to movement and is then passed to the wheels? If you have, what are you going to answer an 8-year-old kid when he asks: “Why does the car move?” …

…has no place in purely theoretical science, as he rejects the truth of theories as well ass their appeal to essence. An explanation’s domain, according to him, is to be adequate in the context chosen by pragmatic factors, which are derived from the “why” question the explanation is called to answer. Surely, van Fraassen would not doubt for a second what to answer the kid who asked what is the reason his car moves.