... and so on and so on like Abbot & Costello's "Who's on first base?" circle-jerk.I know the Earth is round.
How do you know that?
By using geometry & comparing distant (north-south) noontime shadows like Eratosthanes had done.
How do you know that geometry is always correct? ...
... so that by process of elimination the implications of a knowledge claim can be tested, never proving what we know but narrowing down from the universe of alternatives to a single best fit, unfalsified, claim which is still fallible (i.e. could be found to be false or less approximately true than some not yet proposed alternative claim).The Earth is round?
How do you know that?
Well, if the Earth is not round then it must either (1) be finite with an edge or (2) be infinite and flat such that traveling in any direction from this place I will not eventually return to this point. Agreed?
Sure, makes sense.
Good. So let's test them both at the same time by traveling in any direction from this place until we find the edge showing that I know 'the Earth is round' is false.
Um, okay ...
Is there something that you feel or think you truly know. Perhaps some universal truth or intuitional feeling? What about something from experience? I would like to see your answers below. — Thinking
It's only a problem in so far as your epistemology is justificatory — 180 Proof
Sorry, I can't say it better or more succinctly than I have already. — 180 Proof
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