From: ben (ben@machinegod.org)
Date: Mon Jan 28 2002 - 14:17:04 MST
[Joe] It,s worse than that; we can never know any single object from all
possible perspectives (since we are finite and there are an infinity of
possible perspectives from which to view any object) in all possible
perceptual modalities. Any concrete object is phenomenologically
inexhaustible. All that we can say is, whatever the whole might be, it
must noncontradictorally contain the parts which we have apprehended
as parts or aspects of that whole, for part of the whole story of any
object is that when presented to one of our perceptual apparati from a
particular perspective, our specific perception of it results.
[ben] An even more eloquent description of why it is fruitless to discuss
the "borders" of our Universe and what, if anything, is outside it, or
whether or not there even is an outside.
-ben
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