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Comment author: TheAncientGeek 02 February 2015 03:46:16PM 0 points [-]

To attempt to go deeper is to ask justification for the concept of justification, and evidence for what is or is not evidence, and that's nonsense.

Ostensibly, those are meaningful questions. It would be comvemeimt if any question you couldn't answer was nonsense, but...

Comment author: Ishaan 02 February 2015 06:28:41PM -1 points [-]

Agreed, I don't think the question is meaningless. I do, however, think that it's "provably" unanswerable (assuming you provisionally accept all the premises that go into proving things)

Comment author: TheAncientGeek 02 February 2015 06:55:48PM 0 points [-]

But that isn't the same thing at all. If you have a fiundationalistic epistemic structure resting on proveably unprovable foundations, you are in big trouble.

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