[Garrett]

Pyrogenesis
3. The iteration up the hierarchy of categories and essences might terminate with an all-inclusive category, whose essence would explain the nature of all things. Only in his case would the world be totally intelligible, at least in principle.

I'm wondering why "the universe" doesn't count as the all-inclusive category whose essence explains the nature of all things?

[kennethamy]

Originally Posted by Garrett

I'm wondering why "the universe" doesn't count as the all-inclusive category whose essence explains the nature of all things?

Since the notion of the essence of the universe is hard to make sense of, it is unlikely that it will serve to explain anything. It is surely more obscure than anything it might be used to explain. You cannot explain the obscure by the more obscure.