What: Facts can be memorized and recalled.

How: Skills can be practiced and used.

Why: Meaning is ephemeral. It comes and goes as it will. We must petition it to return to us.

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We possess What and How.

Why possesses us.

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Many of us believe only in What and How.

What and How are always at hand when we reach for them, and the fingers of the comprehending mind can wrap comfortably around them. Why is incomprehensible. According to comprehension Why is nonexistent.

Or sometimes What and How conspire to verbalize Why, and then confound the verbal image with that to which it points.

What and How present a pseudo-why of What I must believe and How I must behave.

“Why?” Because of cause and effect. “Why?” Because this is what works best. “Why?” Because that is how it is. “Why?” Because I said so.

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Why is heard and felt. Why moves us to words and actions. But Why is never reducible to words or actions.

Why cannot be justified.

Why justifies.

Why is justification.

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Who — how does this relate to Why, How and What? You’ll rarely see Who discussed when this triad is framed out.