The limitations of language are at the heart of many of the limits of knowledge, and these could possibly evolve and change. Certainly, many philosophers identify language as a problem when it comes to the question of consciousness. Understanding quantum physics is such a problem because the only language that helps us navigate the ideas is mathematics. Try to translate the mathematics into the language of everyday experience and we create the absurdities that make quantum physics so challenging. So the unknowability of position and momentum isn’t really a genuine unknowable. Rather, it is a
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