Something Can Work Before We Can Explain How
Ask how to reach a place or follow a recipe, and a clear sequence of steps can help. Ask how you walk, and the question changes. You can describe a step, then ask how the step begins, then ask how that beginning begins. Explanation can keep receding while walking remains available.
That does not make explanation worthless. We can study movement, improve a method, and correct a mistaken account. The distinction is that a complete account is not always a condition for doing what we already can do. We can walk without rehearsing the account first.
The same question can appear when we are trying to create or speak. 'How will I know exactly how this works?' may be a serious request for understanding. It may also become a reason to wait while the next honest action is already in view. Sometimes the accurate answer is simply, 'I don't know yet.'
That admission need not close the inquiry. It can clear space to observe what happens when we act, where we get stuck, and what a better question might be. Something working is not proof that our explanation of it is correct. Nor does an incomplete explanation cancel what we can examine directly.
We can keep investigating how. We can also notice when the question has become a substitute for beginning. At that point, the way to walk is to walk.