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How do you guys deal with gaps in knowledge? There are certain things we will never fully understand (like what does the thing in itself look like?). To be satisfied with ambiguity seems like a misguided approach because you will never progress further in your understanding since doubt reigns in all faculties of knowledge. Faith begins when reason ends but to put blind faith in something seems like a gamble.

>> No.15075190

focus on what's important

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>>15075173
Insight is highest form of knowledge the only one that removes all doubt.

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>>15075173
Like Swiss cheese. It tastes nice, holes and all.

>> No.15076962

Try and account for temporality. We know that we can't comprehend things past our perceptual impressions of them, at least not rationally, as we have no foundation to form beliefs on the self-sustaining eternal form of something beyond those impressions.

But will this always be the case? I don't necessarily think so. However, inducing that we will go on to advance our sensory faculties and understand more through technology and/or evolution, based on prior progressions in human intellect and capabilities, can not necessarily be certain. Things may change, we may regress, we may stagnate, who knows; the chicken that awakes every morning and is promptly fed will believe it will always be fed until one day it has its head cut off and is eaten.

But if we induce anyways, the world will become more and more knowable, boundaries will be overcome. My life and your life will be over before then - in the mean time, try to enjoy life while you can and recognize certainty was never promised.