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Your boiled-down version of the question leads on to the following questions: * Why is impossible to know X? * How can we prove that X impossible to know? *
by frobozz 13y ago
Your boiled-down version of the question leads on to the following questions:
* Why is impossible to know X?
* How can we prove that X impossible to know?
* How close to knowing X can we get?
* What else can't we know? Is there a model for these kinds of unknowable?
* Given that we can't individually perceive X, can we infer X by other means? Is it valuable to do so?
- nhaehnle 13y agoI think the even more interesting question would be: * Might any of these questions be answered in such a way that the answer ought to influence our future behaviour? If the answer to that particular question is No, then why bother with the others? If the answer seems to be No, it makes sense to delegate bothering about it to a few philosophers in their ivory towers ;-)