“For whatever reason, ” seems like it should be a legitimate hypothesis, as much as ”, therefore ”. The former technically being the disjunction of all variations of the latter with possible reasons substituted in.
But, then again, at the point when we are saying “for whatever reason, ”, we are saying that because we haven’t been able to think of the correct explanation yet—that is, because we haven’t been creative enough, a bounded rationality issue. So we’re perhaps not really in a position to evaluate a disjunction of all possible reasons.
“For whatever reason, ” seems like it should be a legitimate hypothesis, as much as ”, therefore ”. The former technically being the disjunction of all variations of the latter with possible reasons substituted in.
But, then again, at the point when we are saying “for whatever reason, ”, we are saying that because we haven’t been able to think of the correct explanation yet—that is, because we haven’t been creative enough, a bounded rationality issue. So we’re perhaps not really in a position to evaluate a disjunction of all possible reasons.