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The book was a satirical dialogue in verse between two agnostics who were attempting to establish by natural reason alone that the existence of God could not be established by natural reason alone. They managed only to demonstrate that the mathematical limit of an infinite sequence of ‘doubting the certainty with which something doubted is known to be unknowable when the “something doubted” is still a preceding statement of “unknowability” of something doubted,’ that the limit of this process at infinity can only be equivalent to a statement of absolute certainty, even though phrased as an ...more
A Canticle for Leibowitz (St. Leibowitz, #1)
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