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You cannot logically assert that something is unknowable just because it is currently unknown. "At this point" is true, certainly, but at one point we didn't understand that emotion was felt in the brain, not the heart or the liver. We didn't learn that truth from deconstruction of language, either.
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Progressive, rational inquiry is a good thing, however, there may be such a thing as diminishing returns or there may be inscrutable mysteries that we may never unravel.
The language of 18th century materialism seems to apply less and less today.