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The Finitude of Mankind's knowledge


Randolpin

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Every second, every minute, hours, days, etc. we learn..

 

But our knowledge are finite and is this would probably hinder our goal to understand the reality if we only rely solely on our logical abilities?

 

 

Answers are welcome... tnx...

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I think that potential knowledge is infinite but then that's just my opinion.

This is trivially true and easy to demonstrate, actually.

 

Pi has an infinite number of digits and does not repeat. To know every digit of pi would require knowledge of an infinite sequence of digits.

 

So just in that one extremely narrow subject, there is an infinite amount of potential knowledge to be had.

 

Even if all other possible knowledge were finite, that would still mean potential knowledge as a whole was infinite.

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