Pythagoras
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what exactly is bizarre about theories that assert the unknowability of the numenal world?
When I say neoplatonist I meant to clarify that we are talking about contemporary usage of Platonic Forms, or 'Metaphysical realism', which accepts an objective reality as being real and holding some correspondences between certain 'facts' and what we can say about them. Number, time and space, but also the Good (objective moral truths as features of the cosmos, however weird and unique such entities might be,) do have a place at the table of modern epistemology and Ethics.
As for those that reject any correspondence between noumena and phenomena, the adjective bizzare was a poor choice, when my aim was to show that a Platonic cosmos is no less likely as those who choose a supermundane reality that is the source of 'reality' about which nothing can be known - essentially Kant doesn't neccesarily 'best' Plato in ontological, Metaphysical, or even ethical thought, the latter being free to posit a select number of objective truths; oddness and evenness, unidirectional time, and possibly moral objectivity, however 'queer' such a thing might be.
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