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color=#0000ff size=2>So you did understand the subtlety behind the statement I
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size=2></FONT> </DIV></DIV>True. Because Absolute implies that
everyone knows all things, whether<BR>they are currently known or not.
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<DIV><BR>Are you absolutely sure that's a true statement? Of course you
aren't, because it's not. Truth and Reality simply are. Whether
any individual person knows a particular truth doesn't make it untrue; it just
makes it unknown, to that person. It isn't necessary for everyone else
to know something that I know for me to know it.<BR><BR>As Donald Rumsfeld
famously alluded, there are known knowns, known unknowns, and unknown
unknowns. (He left out unknown knowns.) But don't think for a moment that they
aren't absolutely true, even when they're unknown.<SPAN
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