The Epistemological Lens
In total darkness, the assumption of empty space is universally held by the uncurious mind. However, epistemology dictates that what we cannot currently perceive simply rests outside the immediate radius of our intellectual tools.
The flashlight of reason is narrow by design. It cannot illuminate the entire universe simultaneously; it can only isolate localized truths through rigorous, mathematical, and logical application. The terrifying reality is not that there is no truth, but that there is an overwhelming ocean of it, largely shrouded by the noise of human emotion and chaotic assumption.
To engage in philosophy is to deliberately scrub the dark. It is a slow, exhausting, meticulous process of shifting the beam of perception over the massive canvas of reality, unearthing structure where society perceives only void.