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{{ | {{a|bi|{{knownbox}}}}{{d|Potential knowns|/pə(ʊ)ˈtɛnʃ(ə)l nəʊnz/|n|}}(''Reductionist baloney'') | ||
The complete set of all [[knowns]], be they known, unknown or [[constructive]], comprising the total intellectual energy of the [[semantic universe]]. According to [[reductionist]] thinking, the sum total value of all knowns is 1. | |||
This led some to career off down a logical oubliette in the quest to formulate axiomatic algebraic expressions of the relationship between all potential knowns, such as: | |||
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''A <nowiki>=</nowiki> (K-C) - (U+C')'' <br> | |||
Where:<br>A <nowiki>=</nowiki> All Potential Knowns | |||
<br>K <nowiki>=</nowiki> Actual Knowns<br> | |||
C <nowiki>=</nowiki> Actually unknown Constructive Knowns<br> | |||
C''<nowiki>'</nowiki>'' <nowiki>=</nowiki> Actually known Constructive Unknowns}} | |||
This was all well and good, kept lots of [[Legaltechbro|legal technologists]] and [[thought leader]]s busy propagating wise hot takes on [[Twitter]] until it occurred that the truth value of the very proposition “there is a finite number of knowns in the universe” is, itself, unprovable and therefore unknow''able'' — meaning it is therefore ''not'' a potential known, and since (on a [[reductionist]] theory) the proposition does have a truth value (in that it ''must'' do: it is either true or false; it is just that no-one knows which), then the complete set of truths in the universe cannot be encapsulated within the potential knowns after all, and reductionism fails. | |||
''O tempora. O paradox.'' | |||
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