Gospel Koan 50.1

Imperfect Knowing

Koan 50.1

There can be no perfect: 'complete' knowing of our universe, for knowing is 'action to know' and thus imperfect: 'incomplete' by definition.

Summary Exposition

The central mechanism posits that knowledge is an active process, not a passive state, and this very act of striving inherently prevents its own completion. A single scientist, for instance, cannot possess all data from all perspectives simultaneously; their inquiry is a finite series of measurements that alters the system it observes. The fundamental implication is that ontology is defined by epistemic limitation. Reality, as an object of knowledge, is intrinsically unfinished because the knowing of it is a participatory action that can never be finalized, rendering absolute certainty a conceptual impossibility for any being within the universe.

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