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Orrex Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Mon Nov-02-09 08:40 PM
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6. Then we might as well act as though such an unknowable reality doesn't exist
Because we'd have no way to access it, or to know that we'd accessed it, or whether we're right or wrong in our assessments of it.

Even if that uber-reality somehow made itself known to someone, that person would have no way to conclude that the revelation was correct, rather than a delusion. And certainly no one else would be able to take that person's account of the revelation as anything other than wild hearsay.
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