Of course you will use and manage your knowledge, all the stuff you have accumulated over the years. You could avoid it by falling into a deep coma. — Bitter Crank
To make this your bedrock of knowledge is turning knowledge into a slave. I'm more interested in the knowledge itself. Who cares how you arrive on it? The ignorant, maybe...
"Of course you will use your knowledge." If I don't wanna use it I don't use it. I like knowledge for what it is. Knowledge. Falling in coma will indeed avoid me from experiencing that. — Cornwell1
love the absurdity of arguing against fairy tales and ignorance by telling fairy tales and embracing ignorance. — pfirefry
But not according to any method, so certainly not to the fairy tale propagated here. I'm not bound to any method. I don't mind that someone wants to gather knowledge methodologically sound, why should I? We all fall prey to temporarily periods of escapism from reality.
To make this your bedrock of knowledge is turning knowledge into a slave. I'm more interested in the knowledge itself. Who cares how you arrive on it? The ignorant, maybe... — Cornwell1
But not according to any method — Cornwell1
"Of course you will use your knowledge." If I don't wanna use it I don't use it. — Cornwell1
It doesn't need to be spelled out — Bitter Crank
the laws of God
ā Cornwell1
They are above my pay grade. — Bitter Crank
someone's innate method — Bitter Crank
You certainly are welcome to keep posting here — T Clark
Then you weren't accurate when telling me that you had already addressed the question I asked. Being dishonest and dismissive is the result of you feeling defensive.I wasn't being defensive, I was being dismissive. — T Clark
Yet this is what you wrote in your OP:this thread is not about behavior, it's about knowledge. How we know things. — T Clark
What is decision making and human action if not behaviors? What is use if not a type of behavior? It appears that this thread is just the behavior of moving goalposts.As a pragmatic epistemologist I assert that the primary value of truth and knowledge is for use in decision making to help identify, plan, and implement needed human action. — T Clark
Then you weren't accurate when telling me that you had already addressed the question I asked. — Harry Hindu
I don't remember writing that I had already addressed your question. Please remind me. — T Clark
I asked you to remind me of your part of the discussion that answered my question you couldn't do so.I think you've missed the point of my part in this discussion. How much of this thread have you read? — T Clark
Have you provided an example where a falsehood was useful? — Harry Hindu
But in saying that conceptual models are accurate TClark is saying they are true. "Accurate" is a synonym for "true".Conceptual models are not true or false, they are accurate or inaccurate. — T Clark
But in saying that conceptual models are accurate TClark is saying they are true. "Accurate" is a synonym for "true" — Harry Hindu
Making contradictions is playing with words, not stating facts. Is it objectively true that every truth is subjective? In describing the world you're describing a shared world - one in which I exist as well, so what you are defining is what I am part of and would be describing not just you but me too. So if every truth were subjective then keep your truth to yourself because it wouldn't be useful to me in any way.The only distinction I can think of is in measurement. 'I can measure some things.'
That statement is true and is accurate but.
A measurement can never be true, it can only ever have a level of accuracy.
I think this is probably just the same as asking is there an objective truth or is every truth subjective? and I think there have been many threads on that.
I like all the fun paradox's in this area.
"The only true fact is there are no true facts!".... yeah.....that's a true fact....that there are no true facts!
Fun stuff! — universeness
Is it objectively true that every truth is subjective? — Harry Hindu
Agreed, but it's something humans do regularly. The fact that such activity annoys some people, will not prevent it from happening.playing with words, — Harry Hindu
In describing the world you're describing a shared world - one in which I exist as well, so what you are defining is what I am part of and would be describing not just you but me too. So if every truth were subjective then keep your truth to yourself because it wouldn't be useful to me in any way — Harry Hindu
If a measurement can have a level of accuracy then that is the same as saying a measurement has a level of truth, which I would agree with. There are degrees by which some concept or proposition can be accurate/true based on how well it represents what is the case or not — Harry Hindu
The pragmatical approach to knowledge doesn't see things as true or false. In order to provide an example of a falsehood, it is necessary to make a judgement about trueness. This would defeat the point the OP. — pfirefry
But in saying that conceptual models are accurate TClark is saying they are true. "Accurate" is a synonym for "true". — Harry Hindu
Yeah, better to just be a patronizing, bossy asshole, right.
ā baker
Is that a recommendation or a question? — Tom Storm
You-language is an attempt to rule over others. Some people who use you-language try to ameliorate its patronizing and other-annihilating effect by proposing that there is no ultimate truth, or that "all is relative" and other such ethically and epistemically repugnant positions. — baker
Is it objectively true that every truth is subjective? — Harry Hindu
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