Are There Ineffable Aspects of Reality?

Abstract

Abstract Should we think that some facts or some truths are such that we human beings can't represent them in principle in thought or language? That is, are some facts so alien to the human mind that we cannot even think whether they obtain? Chapter 7 considers a series of arguments whether this is so, and in particular how facts we can think about would relate to those that we can't think about. The larger concern is how facts beyond what human beings can represent would affect our goal of coming to a large-scale understanding of what the world is like, and whether a version of idealism can explain why there are no ineffable facts.

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