Does knowledge have limits?
  • simplyG
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    Our ability to gather knowledge/information has grown exponentially especially in the modern age where the internet allows us to gather it at unprecedented speed yet our scientific knowledge abruptly ends around the Big Bang… the question of this thread that seems not only apt in this regard but others too for such events as world occurrences around the world, without there being a reporter there to produce such knowledge then little can be known about remote technologically tool-less villages somewhere in an island say or alien civilisations where light speed places a limit on communication.

    Question: is knowledge always limited by the factors mentioned above or are they just obstacles waiting to be overcome ?
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  • 180 Proof
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    If knowledge didn't have limits, then any knowledge would be all (infinite) knowledge. Besides, asking the question – any question – presupposes limited (incomplete) knowledge, so the OP topic is moot.
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  • simplyG
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    ↪180 Proof


    Not necessarily moot or any question, because knowledge is often open to doubt or not available to the subject and though knowledge might be available on a certain area, the subject probing for answers might not be privy to such answers. Let’s say person A wants to know the football score, just because the football score might be available somewhere does not mean infinite knowledge just knowledge on a certain subject after a certain time. (Or after the football match has happened :grin: )

    You raise an interesting point regarding infinite knowledge though and one which my op slightly wishes to query namely speed of knowledge transmission which is always limited by speed of light, so some answers might be out there but might take ages to KNOW them. But I think you meant knowledge instantly available regardless of the limits placed by the speed of light.
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