In other words, even the most evolved adherents of mainstream Buddhism will not have agency over the contents of their beliefs (i.e. need to skip parts of what is roughly Kegan's stage 4)?
There are many different reasons (which the Eggplant book is supposed to explain). A simple one: there are always unboundedly many things that *might* happen, that you can’t know about.
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Relatedly: you can never interpret data without making unboundedly many implicit ontological assumptions.
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My understanding is that serious statisticians acknowledge this. Any statistical inference on unboundedly many “ceteris paribus” assumptions, most of which cannot be justified by data.
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