A similar point is that a lot of bad theories historically are the result of trying to explain something that should just be taken as an irreducible primary. Aristotle tried to explain “motion” by means of the “unmoved mover”, Newton was treated skeptically because his theory didn’t explain why things continued to move, Lavoisier’s theory of oxygen I think was treated similarly contra phlogiston.
A similar point is that a lot of bad theories historically are the result of trying to explain something that should just be taken as an irreducible primary. Aristotle tried to explain “motion” by means of the “unmoved mover”, Newton was treated skeptically because his theory didn’t explain why things continued to move, Lavoisier’s theory of oxygen I think was treated similarly contra phlogiston.