Dear Fred, I've known that for yonks, inclucding the total unreliability of language to cope witn the one meaning per word fantasy. I've got a precision grade mind, and have struggled with language all my life.
BTW we also know through intuition, quite taboo to "intellect. We're not born with certain knowledge at all, I know since I was born conscious at birthy, but are very good in understanding, and fast as well. English is lousy with its "know". Do you mean Kennschaft, Wisssenschaft or Heidegger's existential? LOcke's tabulas rasa was right about that and sociology and linguistics is quite wrong that we need an education to br brainwashed into what politics wants us to believe, all the better to manipulate us like the witch in Hansel and Gretel. They were not in a cage at all, only a make believe one. Yeah: ""The bait is the means to get the fish where you want it. Catch the fish and you forget the bait. The snare is the means to get the rabbit where you want it. Catch the rabbit and you forget the snare. Words are the means to get the idea where you want it. Catch the idea and you forget about the words. Where shall I find a man who forgets about words and have a word with him> Chuang tzu You mean that one, dirty trick, I don't like Willard van Ormond Quine on it at all. ""You are never dedicated to something you have complete confidence in. No one is fanatically shouting that the sun is going to rise tomorrow. They know it is going to rise tomorrow. When people are fanatically dedicated to political or religious faiths or any other kinds of dogmas or goals, it's always because these dogmas or goals are in doubt. Robert M. Pirsig, "Zen in the Art of Motorcycle Maintenance". Indeed, I don't question the reality of a fork when eating, though Uri Geller does. Also old hat to me, not to "the public". SOME don't like being uncertain, they go for the 'safe' fantasy, etc... Apart from all that I now parade on Complementary and leave the kiddies to play in god particle. Typical chaos bifurcation or Protestant sectarian split, haha. After being abusive they've gone for silence. de Gaulle tried that and see what happened to him. Did not last forever either. Apart from all that you musta got annoyed by your students and are going for the plebs? adrian fred wrote: > Okay, I will reluctantly summarize. I argue in the book that there are > 4 ways of knowing: We are born with certain knowledge (Kant's a > priori), we know through faith, we know through reason, and we know > through perception. I argue that each of those ways is seriously > defective. Not only should we not be certain about "knowledge" gained > through any of those, we don't even have justification for being > confident about them. I also note two paradoxes: first, although I > criticize reason, my whole book is an attempt to persuade through > reason. Second, although I fully believe what I wrote, I expect the > sun to come up tomorrow and in all other ways live life assuming that > things are pretty much what they seem. > > On Sep 10, 12:27 am, Georges Metanomski <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: >> --- On Tue, 9/9/08, fred <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: >> >>> George: You wrote "I find there some loose talk about >>> beliefs, but >>> nothing referring to "Existence" or >>> "Uncertainty"" >>> That's what the book is about. Sorry, I can't >>> summarize in a few >>> sentences. >> =========== >> My long scientific and epistemological experience tells me >> that propounders of most complex theories could usually >> summarize them in one or two concise sentences, or else >> they usually did not know what they were talking about. >> I may grant you a benefice of doubt, but it's not a good >> advertising of your book. >> >> Once I asked for a trial run of a car and the salesman >> told me: <First buy, then test>. >> >> Only he was joking. >> >> Georges. >> ================ > > > > --~--~---------~--~----~------------~-------~--~----~ You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "Epistemology" group. To post to this group, send email to [email protected] To unsubscribe from this group, send email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/epistemology?hl=en -~----------~----~----~----~------~----~------~--~---
