I asked how do you know some statement is true when we seemed to agree that observations determine truth, not language use. So truth is a condition of observations, not of language-use. — Harry Hindu
I also asked how knowledge can be turned on itself to say things like, "I know that I know". Isn't that similar to saying that "I observe that I know"? — Harry Hindu
Might that be culturally different from a male god, the only god, making a man of mud and the woman from his rib? — Athena
Might things have been different if we didn't have the God of Abraham religions and only a male voice until the present? — Athena
Black Like Me, first published in 1961, is a nonfiction book by white journalist John Howard Griffin recounting his journey in the Deep South of the United States, at a time when African-Americans lived under racial segregation. Griffin was a native of Mansfield, Texas, who had his skin temporarily darkened to pass as a black man. He traveled for six weeks throughout the racially segregated states of Louisiana, Mississippi, Alabama, Arkansas, and Georgia to explore life from the other side of the color line. Sepia Magazine financed the project in exchange for the right to print the account first as a series of articles. — Wikapedia
Knowledge is memory based on experience. From it we derive our own opinions on it and interpret it in different ways. Therefor the same knowledge can lead to different conclusions by different people.
Knowledge is a tool we use to measure our surroundings in order to better our manner of operating in life and on earth. — Seagully
Right, so truth is a condition of observations.You can only observe that it is raining if it is raining (if that's what you're referring to). — Andrew M
Right. And you can then know that you reflected by reflecting upon the reflection, ad infinitum.If I know that it's raining because I observed rain, then I can also know that I observed rain (by reflection). In that case, I would also know that I know (that it is raining). — Andrew M
Right, so mistaken, or false, is a condition of knowledge.The connection with language use is just that this is how we ordinarily use terms like "observe" and "know". But, of course, we can be sometimes be mistaken about what we think we know (such as when reading the time of a stopped clock). — Andrew M
These are patriarchal concepts and totally false. Modern biology has already shown that men are made out of woman. Prior to sexual reproduction you had non-sexual reproduction. Life created life without sexual intervention. The male was created out of the non-sexual organism for the purposes of sexual reproduction. — ovdtogt
Is knowledge an infinite regress of aboutness? Or is knowledge some kind of set of rules for interpreting sensory impressions? — Harry Hindu
The whole animal kingdom has knowing without words (set of rules for interpreting). — Athena
We don't have different ideas about what the definition of a duck can include. Acting like a duck entails all the acts of a duck, which includes laying eggs. Looking like a duck entails all the appearances of a duck. There is also the taste and sound of ducks. All of these things together make one a duck. Cherry-picking among them doesn't make one a duck.Yes, they are distinguishable. But we seem to have different ideas about what your duck definition can include. The common definition for a duck specifies the genus which serves to exclude other things that just happen to have a similar appearance or behavioral characteristics. — Andrew M
The difference in the types of knowledge seems to depend more on what we are talking about. Referring to artificial social constructions as states-of-affairs that you have knowledge about (like who is President of the United States and who won the 2004 World Series) seems much easier than referring to natural states-of-affairs (like knowing when it will rain). In the former case, we have created our own truths, or pre-defined them. In the latter, we haven't. We are defining them based on experience and observations.No it isn't. Per the example above, we know that the Red Sox won the 2004 World Series. But no-one can know that they lost it, since they didn't lose it. That's what it means for truth to be a condition of knowledge (and not falsity). — Andrew M
No. I would say that the infinite regress of aboutness is a product of how we use the word, "knowledge". How we use the word is wrong because of this.Interesting, your question involves the phenomena of language. We might consider there is knowing without words. The whole animal kingdom has knowing without words (set of rules for interpreting). We also have knowing without words. Our words (set of rules for interpreting) separate us from our experience and interfere with our knowing. — Athena
You know absolutely nothing about biology do you? — ovdtogt
Researchers say that animals, non-humans, do not have a true language like humans. However they do communicate with each other through sounds and gestures. Animals have a number of in-born qualities they use to signal their feelings, but these are not like the formed words we see in the human language.Apr 20, 2012
Do Animals Have a Language? - Voxy
https://voxy.com › blog › 2012/04 › do-animals-have-a-language — Voxy
Researchers say that animals, non-humans, do not have a 'true' language like humans. However they do communicate with each other through sounds and gestures. — Voxy
So why do many philosophers then go and say things like, "Truth is a condition of knowledge"? — Harry Hindu
That is what language is. Communication.
The problem I encounter on this forum is the lack of basic knowledge concerning, history, biology and physics and chemistry. — ovdtogt
— Athena
Crying babies are communicating — Athena
That is what language is: Communication through sound and gestures. — ovdtogt
No sounds or gestures in this format, but there is definitely language. — creativesoul
Language is not just communication through sounds and gestures. — creativesoul
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