| Part of the problem is that one takes a fact, for example, that human beings are fallible, and blows it out of proportion, as if human being are never right. Then, you phrase it ambiguously:"there is no absolute knowledge", that is, nothing we know is beyond review or unconditioned by our situation. Finally, you get someone to take the bait: there is too absolute knowledge!(Meaning, we do know some things for sure). Then you can portray them as awfully naive, given that various things people were convinced were true proved to be false, including ideas that one had had. The problem is that most things one thinks one knows are true, for example, how to drive around, perform your job, cook, use a bank, etc. It is only those things where one did not have a well- founded idea, either empirically, through careful reasoning, or based on well- attested authority (like a textbook or encyclopedia) that are likely to be wrong, in other words, guesses....... |
