From: hampday@earthlink.net
Date: Thu Apr 21 2005 - 16:58:12 BST
Ian --
> I think l see where you're going, but I'm not sure I want to go there,
> yet.
Well, let me know when you're ready. Life is too short to be beating around
the bush in a philosophy forum.
> I happen to believe we can never "know" what lies beyond the
> very edge of what we can reasonably explain at any given time.
> We can only ever work from the known edge - we may postulate
> what is in the hole, but we can never know it in any reasonable
> explanatory sense without approaching it from a known edge.
I agree completely. Man is not endowed with the capacity to "know" absolute
truth. This is a corollary of his autonomous freedom. But he is equipped
with the intelligence and intuitive sensibility to postulate what lies
beyond his knowledge of physical reality. That, I submit, is the function
of metaphysics.
> Consequently the metaphysical immovable peg (primary cause) in the
> centre of the hole, on which hangs the whole of life, the universe and
> everything, is only ever a subject for philosphers on the 19th hole.
Are you just teeing off at this juncture, or have you at least advanced to
the fairway?
> No relevance to the game of life itself. As a pragmatist I avoid
> losing too much sleep over it.
I suspect you've been reading too much of Kundert -- the archetypical
pragmatist. I know you don't want to remain perched "on the edge". Why
procrastinate? What do you have to fear by exploring the unknown? I don't
see you as a timid soul, and you have the intelligence and the motivation
required.
Think of it this way: while you may not want to involve yourself with the
Ultimate, it is most certainly involved with you.
Anyway, I'll be here when you're ready.
Essentially yours,
Ham
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