>>13856914Things lack intrinsic meaning. You begin to realize that even the more concrete areas of thought, mathematics and logic, aren't grounded in anything absolute.
>>13857102The cave doesn't actually have an exit, that's the problem. You're limited by the limits of observation (limits on empiricism) on the one hand and the limits of language (Wittgenstein, Quine) on the other. Correspondence definitions of truth require verification and the logic of empircle observation is necissarily based on positing an observer. On the flip side, analytic knowledge, Hume's relations of ideas, actually aren't fully a priori (Quine).
You still have pragmatism, evolutionary espistemology, Putnum, etc. but that's admittedly not grounded.
The only silver lining I see is that the fact that complexity and the emergence of more complex system over the life of the universe at least follows the line of Boehme/Hegel, but their logical proofs of this necessity are still just language.
