JON wrote:
>We need to differentiate between the unknown and the
unknowable.
> Mysticism underpins everything with the unknowable.
Rational philosophy
> (as we know it) assumes that the unknown may be explored
and uncovered
> ad infinitum, even if it remains a bottomless pit.
>
PETER responded:
Ah! this is the crux of it: the rational way behaves as
though everything IS
potentially knowable (i.e. explicable), whilst the mystical
way insists the
opposite. But there is simply no way to prove either
standpoint (not yet, at
least!). Both assertions are completely based on faith; in
this sense, I
would say that one is as 'mystical' as the other! - They
ARE unknowable by
me, at least. that is not to automatically assert that they
are
*intrinsically* unknowable - I've no way to rationally make
such an
assertion!
MB:
Everything out there IS potentially knowable in the sense
that we can and do intellectualize new experiences
(undivided reality may be divided ad infinitum). But the
reality that is apart from our abstraction of it can never
be known, if we accept that to know is to abstract reality.
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