yitayning:
I don’t have a Moreh Nevuchim at home and it is very late. But according to the rest of your wuote in its original context at sacred-texts, it seems to me that he is saying that the amount of time it would take a person to go through all the various branches of Logic, Math, Phsyics and Metaphysics would not leave a person time to finish finding the truth, that there is a G-d. Not that it couldn’t be done just that it would take too long. But had there been time we would be able to “make assertions about Him”.
Just because I automatically reject the DH doesn’t mean I’m factually wrong. But to paraphrase a certain goy “You have to assume that the sources worked towards consistency while the R did the exact opposite”.
The gemarah in Chulin is also not a good proof, The line that I …’ed out above from the Ben Ish Chai was
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It’s widely known that Chaza”l hid sod in pshat. It is very easy to say that what they were talking about was not only what we see but also what we don’t see, but they saw.