fallacies

• The only sort of explanations that we can conceive of are personal and scientific explanations, in which a personal explanation explains why some proposition is true in terms of the intentional action of an agent and a scientific one in terms of some conjunction of law-like propositions, be they deterministic or only statistical, and one that reports a state of affairs at some time.
• the universe might be a reduced to a brute fact due to the inability of scientific explanations to analyze it but personal explanations succeed in doing so so the universe must have a personal explanation