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in a philosophical mood by voxwoman2006-11-19 12:55:59
  IMO no. by Peace_man2005-08-04 10:01:30
    Does the non-existence of something by MatthewDBA 2005-08-04 10:20:20
necessarily follow from our inability to know it?

To put it another way, you appear to be stating that because we cannot know any sort of absolute truth, absolute truth cannot exist. Even assuming Occam's Razor, your conclusion seems over-broad; it might be more appropriate to conclude that "one ought not hypothesize that absolute truth exists."

Of course, if we can't know for certain whether Occam's Razor is absolutely true (which would follow if there were no absolute truth), we can't even go that far.

But perhaps this in itself is becoming too rarefied a discussion. :-)
[ Reply ]
      I guess what I'm trying to figure out is by voxwoman2005-08-04 10:25:27
        Possibly they are both inherently unknowable? by Peace_man2005-08-04 10:34:27
          twisting the brain counter-clockwise, by webishop2005-08-04 11:20:17
      If we are unable to know something then by Peace_man2005-08-04 10:31:54
        I suppose what I'm saying by MatthewDBA2005-08-04 10:48:14

 

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