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>>20640143
And from there, there appears to be a steady progression from the philosophy of the "non-thingly" right back to Epicurus. There is a Kant to Berkeley pipeline, but there also is a Kant to Marx pipeline.

> Negate solipsism idealism follows
> Negate idealism, dualism follows.
> Negate dualism, monism follows.
> Negate monism, sunyata follows
>...

Reality appears best known by apophasis, by what it is not.

This is one of the unfortunate insights of Karl Popper.

It is a fucking ocean of Becoming.

>>10467655
He was wrong because the development of human history is very strongly influenced by the growth of human knowledge. To predict the future society, one must be able to predict the growth of knowledge. This is impossible because you can't know what you will know tomorrow without knowing it today. Therefore all predictions about the future of human society are on the same level as those of Nostradamus; when they are right it's because of vagueness or luck.