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)
Related
- 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. (similarity 0.83)
- If a truth depends on more truths than the knower can know, it is accidentally unknowable, not inherently so. (similarity 0.83)
- Philosophy can only restate life’s fundamental questions. (similarity 0.78)
Broader Connections
- The feeling that systematic knowledge is impossible stems from uncontrollable modern events, not epistemology
#contradicts(0.78) — Anthony Giddens, The Consequences of Modernity, 19