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A wise man (my advisor when I was doing my philosophy degree) once said something to the effect of: There are two great mistakes you can make in philosophy. On
by ubernostrum 15y ago
A wise man (my advisor when I was doing my philosophy degree) once said something to the effect of:
There are two great mistakes you can make in philosophy. One is deciding there is no ultimate answer. The other is deciding you've found it.
- araneae 15y agoThat's rather trite, especially considering it follows that standard wise-mystic pattern of "two statements which contradict each other." Someone wrote a comic about it but unfortunately I can't find it.
- rektide 15y agoThere's nothing inherently contradictory about an unknowable truth. Disagree: it's merely trite, not incorrect, and in spite of being trite it still brings a grin to my lips.
- Symmetry 15y agoIs it a mistake to say "There may be an ultimate answer, but we have no means of reaching it"?
- kruhft 15y agoI think that would be Absurdism, but instead of reaching it, we can't understand it.