Jokes aside, I'd say we reexamine the evidence carefully, thoroughly, and then ... — Agent Smith
The face of truth! A magnificent title as far as I'm concerned. — Agent Smith
So you don't believe that everyone could at some point know everything about how reality works - have a unanimous reality together? — Benj96
"If there are infinite ways to be ignorant -(to hold irrational beliefs, delusions etc about reality), then on the contrary pole should there not be only one way to be privy to the truth?" — Benj96
Do you mean it would be nice if it was, or that would be only fair? — Ciceronianus
But doing philosophy, being rational, involves sorting out the consequences of the things we make up. — Banno
Not just anything will do. — Banno
Now the consequences of the two contentions I selected from your comments are that we know everything, that there are proposals that are neither true nor false, that we didn't know yesterday that the OP is in English... I could go on. — Banno
well, let's just say the results are not worthy of due consideration. — Banno
In other words, that there is a state of pure ignorance and a state of pure truth — Benj96
Utter cobbler's awls.So yes we do have the potential to know everything because we can know nothing. — Benj96
Fucksake.Thus times existence as a proposal can be false — Benj96
Seems you are beyond redemption. The only hope is that you don't infect others. Were I a mod I would ban you for the good of humanity. — Banno
Seems you are beyond redemption. The only hope is that you don't infect others. Were I a mod I would ban you for the good of humanity. — Banno
If you don't understand what I say you can choose to ignore it — Benj96
irrelevancies — Banno
You have not shown yourself capable of replying to the critic — Banno
there is a point in attempts to engage in rational conversation at which the only reasonable thing to do is to laugh and walk away. Here we are. — Banno
Both. I think it would be nice if we all related to eachother and our external reality in a similar way. We likely wouldn't feel lonely or depressed or excluded in such a case as this "togetherness". I think it would be fair to expect such a case too. It sounds like a good thing to be a united community. To feel like "us" rather than "me" and "other". — Benj96
But alas, the universe isn't beholden to us to us in any sense — Ciceronianus
We are in constant transaction, constant exchange with the external world. Give and take, acknowledge and express, observe and project. If we don't accept that fact we simply live in our own internal mental world devoid of external narrative — Benj96
But we disagree on whether we can know everything. — Ciceronianus
So no its not possible to know everything that has and will ever occur, just as one cannot know everyone's name on the planet, but it is possible to understand of all of their relationships with one another and inherit good predictive ability. You can apply that ability (that formula) to whatever you want to. You can specialise in whatever you want to know. — Benj96
We're largely creatures of habit, and what we interact with is in most cases familiar and it requires little or no thought on our part to interact with the familiar satisfactorily. Perhaps we may be said to "understand" the familiar and our response to it, in that sense.
We only think when we encounter problems (Dewey again). When we encounter problems we're dissatisfied, and seek to resolve that dissatisfaction. We try to resolve the problems in various ways until resolution takes place. Thus do we learn and acquire knowledge.
Maybe that's what you mean. I'm not certain. — Ciceronianus
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