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From: The Natural Philosopher <tnp@invalid.invalid>
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Subject: Re: Joy of this, Joy of that
Date: Sat, 7 Dec 2024 11:59:19 +0000
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On 06/12/2024 17:12, D wrote:
> If you postulate something which can never be known, it is kind of 
> useless. It goes the same way as god, or a postulated first mover etc.

And yet that is what people do all the time. In fact it is the necessary 
foundation of thinking.

All metaphysics - and we all use it, whether we understand that we do or 
not -  is to assume the framework for our understanding, and use it not 
because it is demonstrably true, but because it *works* for us.

We don't  and can't *know* that time and space exist - at least in the 
way we understand them, but they do *work* for us, the way we understand 
them.




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always run out of other people's money. It's quite a characteristic of them"

Margaret Thatcher