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Well said - it is a mystery, to be sure!
Originally posted by Semicollegiate
The fact that everything exsists in the first place is miraculous.
Originally posted by bb23108
After all of this, I can think of one certain fail-safe to know if we are wrong - if our theories are based on the assumption that we know what some "thing" IS in Reality. As I have mentioned several times, no one knows what a single thing actually IS in Reality - and so this is a certain fail-safe way of knowing we are wrong if we are presuming we do have such knowledge.
Of course, this does not cover all the theories that are not based on a foundation of knowing what something IS in Reality - but still it is definitely a good (even humbling) disposition to embrace in terms of the inherent unknowability of the Reality in we have all arisen.
edit on 5/14/2013 by bb23108 because: (no reason given)
After all of this, I can think of one certain fail-safe to know if we are wrong - if our theories are based on the assumption that we know what some "thing" IS in Reality. As I have mentioned several times, no one knows what a single thing actually IS in Reality - and so this is a certain fail-safe way of knowing we are wrong if we are presuming we do have such knowledge.
Of course, this does not cover all the theories that are not based on a foundation of knowing what something IS in Reality - but still it is definitely a good (even humbling) disposition to embrace in terms of the inherent unknowability of the Reality in we have all arisen.
Originally posted by Itisnowagain
Originally posted by bb23108
After all of this, I can think of one certain fail-safe to know if we are wrong - if our theories are based on the assumption that we know what some "thing" IS in Reality. As I have mentioned several times, no one knows what a single thing actually IS in Reality - and so this is a certain fail-safe way of knowing we are wrong if we are presuming we do have such knowledge.
Of course, this does not cover all the theories that are not based on a foundation of knowing what something IS in Reality - but still it is definitely a good (even humbling) disposition to embrace in terms of the inherent unknowability of the Reality in we have all arisen.
edit on 5/14/2013 by bb23108 because: (no reason given)
Before we can ascertain what something is we have to first find out what we are measuring it with. If we don't know what we are then how can we know what anything else is?edit on 14-5-2013 by Itisnowagain because: (no reason given)