Not much, I think. Some tautologies that lead nowhere, some mathematical constructs. Maybe we know enough to know that what we're after is understanding, which is a process rather than a possession.
Not much, Mason. If there's anything that we Know at the end of the day, it's that at best, we have a fallible Knowledge of everything, which is self-referentially fallible as well. Also, we don't Know what exactly we mean by Know in the first place. So, I suppose the easiest answer to your question is nothing. We Know Nothing.
To qualify, we may Know very little in the Parmenidean/Cartesian sense of it being impossible even in principle that we could be wrong, but this needn't worry us. We know quite a lot in a small-k, inductive, fallible sense, and much of this knowledge is very useful to us, even as we continuously re-examine it and our own faculty of judgment.
Not much, I think. Some tautologies that lead nowhere, some mathematical constructs. Maybe we know enough to know that what we're after is understanding, which is a process rather than a possession.
ReplyDeleteNot much, Mason. If there's anything that we Know at the end of the day, it's that at best, we have a fallible Knowledge of everything, which is self-referentially fallible as well. Also, we don't Know what exactly we mean by Know in the first place.
ReplyDeleteSo, I suppose the easiest answer to your question is nothing. We Know Nothing.
To qualify, we may Know very little in the Parmenidean/Cartesian sense of it being impossible even in principle that we could be wrong, but this needn't worry us. We know quite a lot in a small-k, inductive, fallible sense, and much of this knowledge is very useful to us, even as we continuously re-examine it and our own faculty of judgment.
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