AMA | October 2024

1077.455 - 1103.756 Sean Carroll

Kyle Stevens says, you often refer to brute facts in physics to which there is no further explanation. Is there any a priori reason we should prefer brute facts to either an infinite or circular explanatory chain? No, I don't really think so. For one thing, I worry a little bit about the whole idea of an explanatory chain. I'm not quite sure that that is the kind of thing that you have in