If you can't explain it to a six year old, you don't understand it yourself.
"It's pathetic," Paige says, "how we can't live with the things we can't understand. How if we can't explain something we'll just deny it."
— We`re going to the realm of monsters?
— We? No. Me. You are gonna stay here with the other chicken. That`s what i`m talking about. Gimme some. Come on! That was a good one. How do you not get it? I called her a chicken, there`s a chicken on the boat. I know she`s human, but that`s not the... You know what? Forget it. Forget it! I`m not explaining it to you. Cause then it`s not funny.
The simplest explanation is usually the right one.
— It's not what you did, son, that angers me so. It's who you did it to.
— Who? The fucking nobody!
— That fuckin' nobody... is John Wick. He once was an associate of ours. They call him Baba Yaga.
It was easier to know it than to explain how I knew it. If you were asked to prove that two and two made four, you might find some difficulty. And yet you are sure of the fact.
— Is this a tragedy?
— A tragedy, my young lady, is a noble art form offering a symbolic vision of the world based on the intersection in the written text and the actors identity. This sharp fixed though reading life constitutes a ritual by which the spirit can be able to the point of the sacred transcendence. You understand?
— No.
— Are you okay?
— That was so intense. I, like, can't even with this place.
— What just happened to you?
— I got eaten by a rhino, and then I fell, like, a thousand feet from the sky.
— Yeah, that's what it looked like.
— That was a hippo. They're omnivorous. They're as fast as a horse over short distances, and they have the bite force of 8100 newtons. How do I know this?
— You're an expert in zoology.
— What? I'm still an old fat guy, right?
— I'm afraid so.
Random chance... Now isn’t that a convenient explanation?
A clear argument has to lay out an inferential pathway, starting from what the audience already knows or accepts. If you don’t recurse far enough, you’re just talking to yourself.
Just because we don't understand doesn't mean that the explanation doesn't exist.