Benjamin Cain
1 min readJan 31, 2024

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I've written a lot on that epistemic question. I take a pragmatic, neo-Kantian view of our understanding of patterns. So the generality is partly subjective and partly objective. In so far as we simplify the objective interrelations because we're interested in focusing only on some of them, the divisions between things are imposed humanizations of the inhuman. But those simplifications aren't sheer fantasies if they pass practical tests. The adequate concept of any type, however, would have to encompass the cosmic whole (all the relations between things, cutting across the universe), so it would amount to a mystical state of omniscience. I suspect we have intimations of that godhood in peak states of consciousness, including negative ones.

https://medium.com/original-philosophy/how-understanding-the-facts-makes-all-knowledge-partly-subjective-bda98e29f990?sk=387e9e50b01927fbaae66014e5ed731a

https://medium.com/original-philosophy/why-we-should-reject-the-conceit-of-objective-truth-c3b3195a883c?sk=f2cefc17e62b7737e31c4523775fc9ed

https://medium.com/grim-tidings/the-ultimate-myth-we-tell-about-objective-truth-3007cf72cd2e?sk=bcf6b9834d1071558314e9234e16e250

https://medium.com/the-apeiron-blog/what-is-the-nature-of-ultimate-knowledge-664642cf8147?sk=73f128be23b11ea1e09a8c3e83db51ed

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Benjamin Cain
Benjamin Cain

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