[WithoutMe]

Well Mohan,
Even if an event doesnot have any cause or effect, that is it is either acausal or self-caused (i.r., the case is the effect & the effect is the cause), - there would be no no way of knowing it, coz by yur effort to know an event, even be it an acausal event, u wud introduce causality into it. Thus it is with every acausal event, only if it exists, that every acausal event occurs in isolation, otherwise, it will but be influnced by all that is around it & thus leading to causality.

Hence, an event if acausal can never be known & the fact is that -- this fact of an acausal event being not-knowable, is otself unknowable & ad infinitum!!!

Thus, it is with most of metaphysics that one has to ultimately halt at a certain point where neither an affirmation nor a denial can be done, coz to do any, one has to first know it, coz only after knowing can one conclude, whereas in such cases, the thing itself just cant be known, & to conclude it, even its unknowability cant be known. Hence, all the talk by the post-mordernists abt the limitation of thought & of language is just a play of words, coz what really acnnot be known, can be even known, that is, the unknowablity of that which can be known, cannot even be known!

So, what really cannot be known, cannot be known & that which here is teh unknowablity of the unknowability of that which cannot be known, cannot be known too... & ad infitum!!!! Thus, it is noone has any inkling or any idea as to the REAL UNKNOWN, otherwise how wud be unknown!

Infact that which we know that we donot know, is actually that which we know but know very little, that is, one can never known nothing abt anything. Alas! if nothing could have been known, then had it been nothing!

Even when I am using the word "nothing", i am actually referring to the idea/concept of nothing which I have in my mind, & what is that idea? that idea is always in conjunction to the negation of that something, which i consider as not nothing! Can "nothing" be known in isolation?

Note: even the word "nothing" has "to the negation of that something, which i consider as not nothing", as in -- "nothing" = "no" + "thing"! Now, i know aht I thing is, atleast I can feel with my senses, & what i do to concepptualise & conginise "nothing", i simply use the idea of negation on something that I know, & that something here is "thing"!!!!

The same can be said for terms as Infinity, Absolute, Perfect, & all such terms which are borderlines of Metaphysics!!

Rgds,
wM.

PS. "When he to whom one speaks does not understand, and he who speaks himself does not understand, that is metaphysics" -- Voltaire.