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Was reading Mises' Human Action and came across this passage you might be interested in:

"Both principles of cognition—causality and teleology—are, owing to the limitations of human reason, imperfect and do not convey ultimate knowledge. Causality leads to a regressus in infinitum which reason can never exhaust. Teleology is found wanting as soon as the question is raised of what moves the prime mover. Either method stops short at an ultimate given which cannot be analyzed and interpreted. Reasoning and scientific inquiry can never bring full ease of mind, apodictic certainty, and perfect cognition of all things. He who seeks this must apply to faith and try to quiet his conscience by embracing a creed or a metaphysical doctrine."

This can either be interpreted as a humble *or* begrudging concession about the limitations of scientific inquiry 😂

freeborn | ἐλεύθερος | 8r0gwg 6mo ago

😂

I remember that passage...this is what our 'revelational epistemology' provides: a transcendant and authoritative 'why'

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sachin 6mo ago

I think science till Mises' time had some humility to it in that most researchers and scholars acknowledged these limits.

I have no idea how, when or where it fell off and became so arrogant and as a result, stagnant.

Engineering and technology on the other hand have progressed superbly.