Certain philosophical problems like the mind–body problem may be fundamentally unknowable by humans due to cognitive closure.

Evidence

Cognitive closure (philosophy) (Wikipedia)

Categorization

  • corroborated: 2 independent passages support this claim
  • XREF: connects to: Life is full of unfathomable mysteries that elude understanding. — Crews, Harry, A childhood the biography of a place, 374; Humans, like every other animal, are not smart enough to understand all of nature’s laws, and unknowable unknowns may vastly exceed what we can ever know. — Mysterianism; If a truth depends on more truths than the knower can know, it is accidentally unknowable, not inherently so. — Could there be an (in principle) unknowable truth? (+16 more)

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