16.1.07

metaphysical nerve

beyond experience is what we do not know

beyond knowledge

it is pretty straightforward -

you can't further describe this state

it is by definition beyond description

nevertheless

even some great thinkers have lost their nerve and jumped

Plato into Forms
Descartes into God
Kant into the Noumenon
Schopenhaur into Will
Hegel into the Absolute

there is a moral point to the epistemology of radical (or common sense) skepticism

it is that there is a limit to human vanity

and that limit is the end of knowledge

the unknown is the end of vanity

the logic of it is straightforward - clear cut

what we cannot know we cannot know

nothing more to say
no need to say it

full stop

walk away with dignity