Cognitive closure (philosophy)
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Cognitive closure refers to the possibility or belief that the human mind is "closed" to some facts--that there are things human beings are simply not able to know, not because there is not enough time to figure them out, but because the human mind does not have the capacity to comprehend them. Thomas Nagel mentions the possibility of cognitive closure of the subjective character of experience and the implications that it has for materialist reductionist science in his essay "What Is It Like to Be a Bat?". Another notable defender of the cognitive closure thesis is philosopher Colin McGinn.
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