Letters to the Editor
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"My point is that it is very dangerous to claim something is unknowable, and while we can always go around asking each other things like "Why do griphons burn green", in terms of real meaningful questions - unknowable isn't a permanent condition."
I know that knowing which are the truly unknowable things is a big problem. It happens to religions all the time. They make hay by explaining the unknown instead of the unknowable, and then 2000 years later that hay got digested, and you know what you are left with.
On the other hand, we now know that any logical system strong enough to be of any value has unknowables, and this should be useful information to those busy trying to make new hay by finding which unknowns are most likely actually unknowables, or at least those that will remain candidates for a reasonable length of time.