If we could look into the future to see the answers to our questions, we would hear people uttering sublime truths without understanding. They will even live their lives by them, and build and use machines which depend upon them.
But they will not have arrived at them via our questions, and, because they 'know' the answers, they will not understand our confusion.
We might live among them for a while thinking this, and then begin to wonder whether we had understood their language at all, or simply stumbled into a jungle of misleading homonymy.
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