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Does Everything Have To Make Sense?
And if they don't, how are we supposed to know what to do? |
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Michael Katzenelson, physicist:
"Everything" probably means everything physical, rather than everything physical and spiritual. Nobody would say that we understand everything in the spiritual. |
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Nachshon Zohari, psychotherapist:
Something “makes sense” only in the context of what is known and familiar to us. Television, for example, makes sense to us because we have all grown up with it... |
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Ann Nunes, literature prof:
Who spilled the coffee? Let's say I spilled the coffee. Why did I spill it? Maybe I am clumsy. Maybe that is from my heredity and environment, which comes from G_d... |
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Alexander Poltorak, physicist:
We all try to make sense of things around us. Making sense of new experience entails relating it to one or more familiar experiences stored in our memory... |
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Shmuel Klatzkin, scholar:
If we did not believe that things make sense, we would not bother to talk about them. It’s not just philosophy—it’s plain old talk that is at stake... |
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