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Old 06-13-2023, 02:25 AM   #316 (permalink)
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Would you accept finite but unbounded? ....like Plato said?
Yes and no. I accept paradox as useful explanations despite our limitations at acquiring a more accurate understanding. It's along the line of Peterson's concept of "more true". While absolute truth is unattainable at every sense of the meaning, it doesn't preclude a more accurate calibration.

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No ir doesn't. But anyway...
... which leads me to your personality, that practicality requires an acceptance of constraint. A thing can endlessly be optimized, but is useless until decisions are made.

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The vastness of space is full of evidence of what we know not.
...and some things are more likely not than others.

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You should grok Fuller.
Agreed. He seems to not go away despite best efforts by entropy. It usually indicates something about usefulness and quality.
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