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Advocate wrote: ↑Mon Apr 13, 2020 3:13 pm

AlexW wrote: ↑Mon Apr 13, 2020 6:54 am

Advocate wrote: ↑Mon Apr 13, 2020 6:14 am Yes. That's why "the answer" to metaphysics is the same as for consciousness or physics - a metaphor or set of maxims that best leads to replicable certainty. Absolute certainty simply isn't in our reach

Yes... but it is not a lack of knowledge that makes absolute certainty impossible - it is impossible because the Absolute always "stands alone" / there is no room for an absolute XYZ (XYZ = certainty, truth, reality, self or other...)
Its like positing: There is infinity! And then backtracking and creating a theory that looks at it from the outside, that contains elements that are not it...

Can you rephrase that please? I don't grok.