Why not? Sometimes I manage to refuse to employ as many as five explanations before breakfast.
You can’t pretend that the explanation doesn’t exist if it occurred to you. But you certainly can refuse to act upon it, not just talk about it. Which among competing explanations for human behavior is true is almost never certain; it’s perfectly possible to bias yourself against one common explanation and by doing so avoid the more harmful, and very probable, outcome of oversubscribing to it.
Why not? Sometimes I manage to refuse to employ as many as five explanations before breakfast.
You can’t pretend that the explanation doesn’t exist if it occurred to you. But you certainly can refuse to act upon it, not just talk about it. Which among competing explanations for human behavior is true is almost never certain; it’s perfectly possible to bias yourself against one common explanation and by doing so avoid the more harmful, and very probable, outcome of oversubscribing to it.