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Full Idea
The fundament upon which all our knowledge and learning rests is the inexplicable. It is to this that every explanation, through few or many intermediary stages, leads.
Gist of Idea
All knowledge and explanation rests on the inexplicable
Source
Arthur Schopenhauer (Parerga and Paralipomena [1851], I:1)
Book Ref
Schopenhauer,Arthur: 'Essays and Aphorisms [from Pand P]', ed/tr. Hollingdale,R.J. [Penguin 1970], p.117
A Reaction
This is obviously true, and the only question is whether it is a necessary or a contingent truth.
Related Idea
Idea 21474 Metaphysics studies the inexplicable ends of explanation [Schopenhauer]