[MD] What is knowledge?

[ian glendinning]

Ah yes Platt, the old ones are the best ... the axiom that there are no axioms.

We cannot be "certain" Platt, in any sense that would satisfy a person
who refuses to see the value in recursion, we can only be wise and
enlightened, as I actually said.

Ian

On 6/27/07, pholden at davtv.com <pholden at davtv.com> wrote:
> Quoting ian glendinning <psybertron at gmail.com>:
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> > David, Marsha, Gav
> >
> > Exactly right ... in any literal or "scientific" sense we know nothing
> > with any logical certainty (if enlightened, we know in the wise sense
> > that Gav points out), and knowing that it becomes a matter of knowing
> > what you believe, and a pragmatic question of what to do with that
> > so-called knowledge - something constructive, something valuable,
> > something good.
> >
> > Ian
>
> If we know nothing with logical certainty, how I can we be certain we know nothing?
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