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I think there is a difference between the desire for meaning and the need to know. Having said which I don’t think I can describe it. Perhaps meaning implicates us more.
I get your distinction, Evan. But aside from the issue of meaning vs. knowing, don’t you have to give pause every time a new discovery testifies not only to how little we really knew in the first place but also how much more there is to know?
Yes, I think that’s true too.