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HOW AND WHY





                                                                                By René GUENARD

            Cité seniors :

            Exchanges between Sylvestre Coutinho and René Guénard

                                                           When we  pull out adverbs or interrogative
                                                           pronouns  such  as  "how"  and  "why"  from
                                                           their  grammatical  context,  we  see  the
                                                           importance of their respective meanings.

                                                           "How"  answers  a  question.  In  what  way?
                                                           By what means? Whereas "Why" is used to
                                                           explain a situation or an event. What is the
                                                           purpose?

                                                           But  it  all  depends  on  what  you  want  to
                                                           know. How to prune trees and why to wear
                                                           clothes do not belong to the same register
            of knowledge as how did matter come to be and why there is a world instead of nothing.

            While  science  helps  us  to  understand  how  things  happened,  it  sometimes  has  great
            difficulty in objectively demonstrating why they happened.
            We are aware that our level of reflection is still incomplete and does not allow us, for the
            moment, to answer all our questions.

            But  let's  remain  clear-headed  and  confident.  Let's  continue  to  question  the  world
            with wonder, because that's what makes us thinking beings.




                                                                                     Translation DEEPL
                                                                         Revision Patricia BEAUSSARD
























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