What is the difference between describing ‘how’ and explaining ‘why’? To describe ‘how’ means to reconstruct the series of specific events that led from one point to another. To explain ‘why’ means to find causal connections that account for the occurrence of this particular series of events to the exclusion of all others.
--Yuval Harari, Sapiens: A Brief History of Humankind
--Yuval Harari, Sapiens: A Brief History of Humankind
In a lot of cases, ‘why’ can hide a lot of different questions, and needs to be properly reduced.