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Concluding Unscientific Postscript

This document discusses subjective versus objective reflection and truth. It argues that while we can reflect objectively on things like math or history, decisive thought is always subjective since it relates to the self. It is also limited by the fact that we can only exist as the self and can never transcend our own existence. Therefore, the truths that matter are subjective truths that are only true for the individual self, even if they may be untrue in an objective sense. Our passion is to pursue knowledge of the infinite, though as existing beings we can never fully achieve this due to our subjective natures.

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Concluding Unscientific Postscript

This document discusses subjective versus objective reflection and truth. It argues that while we can reflect objectively on things like math or history, decisive thought is always subjective since it relates to the self. It is also limited by the fact that we can only exist as the self and can never transcend our own existence. Therefore, the truths that matter are subjective truths that are only true for the individual self, even if they may be untrue in an objective sense. Our passion is to pursue knowledge of the infinite, though as existing beings we can never fully achieve this due to our subjective natures.

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Cur passlon ls Lo embrace an endless pursulL Lo knowlng Lhe lnflnlLe Lhough we wlll noL achleve due Lo
our exlsLlng SocraLes ls commended by klerkegaard for embraclng hls uncerLalnLy wlLh a passlon for Lhe
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