But you cannot go on 'explaining away' for ever: you will find that
you have explained explanation itself away. You cannot go on 'seeing
through' things for ever. The whole point of seeing through something
is to see something through it.... If you see through everything, then
everything is transparent. but a wholly transparent world is an
invisible world. To 'see through' all things is the same as not to
see.
-- C. S. Lewis. The Abolition of Man (1947).