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The horizon that retreats one step for every step you take toward it.
means Incapable of being known or fully understood, whether in practice or in principle.
from A transparent build from English: the negative prefix 'un-' fastened to 'knowable,' itself 'know' plus '-able.' 'Know' descends from Old English 'cnāwan,' a deep Germanic root that is also a cousin of Latin 'cognoscere' (to recognize) and Greek 'gignōskein' — the same family tree that gives us 'cognition' and 'gnosis.' The '-able' suffix arrived through Old French from Latin '-abilis,' meaning 'capable of.' So the word literally stacks up as 'not-able-to-be-known' — a small monument built entirely from the act, and the limit, of knowing.
- math limit
- Godel proved some truths can never be proven
- physics wall
- Heisenberg forbids knowing position and momentum exactly
- black holes
- Event horizons hide information forever from outside
- halting problem
- No program can predict if all programs stop
- ancient apophatic
- Mystics defined God only by what he isn't