ABSTRACT
Analysis comes when threads in the warp and woof of life ball up, or the shuttle gets stuck or falls off, or things do not lie flat. This means people only ask for explanation of the things that need explanation: if things are normal, they typically do not. Whether or not they ask for explanations is up to them: that is not something that logic or science or philosophy can adjudicate, because it is the demand for explanation that lies behind all of these. Some people never seek to understand why even something very negative and very unexpected has happened: they call these people “fatalistic,” not asking for explanations. Explanations are abstract; that is how they function. Explanations are abstractions that decouple from particulars and so can contextualize variations between them. Abstractions of thought are not machines, they are just abstractions by individual particulars.
