Thanks all through I wonder about very deeply hidden irony. The best are indistinguishable and opaque.
For that reason the safest is to lie low and assume one can never really know.
Prediction. That is the test of knowing for me. I have been involved with a few subjects which are inventions of man that do fall within an extremely predictable outcome. That is the best of what I can know. The further away from our invention the less I feel is knowable. Too many variables we couldn't account for.
There aren't many circumstance that come along that baffle me with regards to commercial printing. The variables are quantifiable and their relationships well understood. The process is understandable.
Life in general and what we run up against aren't so well definable. The variables less quantifiable, and their relationships misunderstood.
I believe beyond that, only belief is left.
I find it ironic that mathematically Pi is an approximation, yet so much is mathematically based on it. And it works depending on how far out or how narrowly you carry out the decimal places. Out past 10K of decimal positions seems overkill.
That's ironic.
And if that qualifies me as slipping from reason to it's contrary? Perhaps the limits of reason are recognizable.