Does Everything Have To Make Sense?

And if they don't, how are we supposed to know what to do?

If everything does have to make sense, what’s the criteria for making sense? And if some things don’t have to make sense, how’s human being supposed to know what’s right and what’s wrong?

Answer #1 - Michael Katzenelson

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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Answer #2 - Nachshon Zohari

By Nachshon Zohari

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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Answer #3 - Ann Nunes

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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Answer #4 - Alexander Poltorak

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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Answer #5 - Shmuel Klatzkin

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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