These three enigmas are all instances of the same enigma, the impossibility of finding ultimate justification for anything, respectively knowledge of how to observe, how to think, and how to act; alongside the necessity to carry on with life anyway. Why not just recognise the impossibility of finding ultimate justification for anything, and carry on with life anyway, while studying these things at your leisure?
My house is not going to fall down just because I start thinking about why it has not.
Yeah I agree the three enigmas are instances of the same thing. And it does seem to me that no system of reasoning can provide its own ultimate justification. But whether it’s possible to find ultimate justification for anything is a different question, I think. It seems to me that it’s worth making some real time and space to look into whether anything can be ultimately justified. For me it was important to make such time and space because I just couldn’t fully dive into my work without first having looked into this.
These three enigmas are all instances of the same enigma, the impossibility of finding ultimate justification for anything, respectively knowledge of how to observe, how to think, and how to act; alongside the necessity to carry on with life anyway. Why not just recognise the impossibility of finding ultimate justification for anything, and carry on with life anyway, while studying these things at your leisure?
My house is not going to fall down just because I start thinking about why it has not.
Yeah I agree the three enigmas are instances of the same thing. And it does seem to me that no system of reasoning can provide its own ultimate justification. But whether it’s possible to find ultimate justification for anything is a different question, I think. It seems to me that it’s worth making some real time and space to look into whether anything can be ultimately justified. For me it was important to make such time and space because I just couldn’t fully dive into my work without first having looked into this.