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With the help of huge machines, science endeavours to wrest the last secrets from Nature. An example is the large accelerator at the European nuclear research centre CERN, which is designed to simulate processes that presumably took place at the origin of the universe. Can we hope to understand some day the existence of the world, or does the origin of all things confront us with an unsolvable problem?
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Pyrrhonism, also termed scepticism, goes back to the ancient philosopher Pyrrho of Elis and refers to a philosophical movement that cast fundamental doubt upon the possibility of a true knowledge of reality.
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At the International Congress of Mathematicians of 1900, held in Paris, Hilbert formulated with exemplary exactitude a list of fundamental problems that he claimed to be solved. In 1928 he extended this list.
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Küppers, BO. (2018). Are There Unsolvable World Enigmas?. In: The Computability of the World. The Frontiers Collection. Springer, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-67369-1_2
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