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To: Lane3 who wrote (6503)6/21/2003 12:01:36 PM
From: TimF  Read Replies (1) | Respond to of 7720
 
people have opinions and beliefs, they don't "know" anything. The world would be a whole lot better off if people comprehended that distinction...

...But it is wrong to insist on the truth of that or any other POV to the extent of arrogantly assuming it applies universally.

The idea that we are not certain about what we believe is different from the idea that ideas can not apply universally. The first idea just acknowledges our human limitations. The second asserts that not only can we not be sure what is right but that one idea can not be right or wrong any more then any other idea.

Tim



To: Lane3 who wrote (6503)6/21/2003 1:06:40 PM
From: The Philosopher  Read Replies (1) | Respond to of 7720
 
Well, if you want to be technical about it, we cannot "know" anything. We cannot even know that we don't know anything. Nor can we know that we do know anything.

All of what we call knowledge is simply probability or supposition. Nothing more.

So we use the term "know" necessarily in a sense that means something other than to know as you would seem to want to use the word.


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