Enlish know and knowing are fuzzy, unclear words, not just ambiguous, but unclear. Old English has kennen, as in Scot 'ken' and witan and if you poke 'know' into a polyglot dictionary you'll get near half a dozen words with different meanings as in German Kennschaft, Wissenschaft,french savoir, connaitre and others What you understand by a word is not necessarily what others, the public, people, a dictionary give out as the meaning. In current social practice experience as feelings is taboo.
adrian Clyve wrote: > When I think of "knowing", I think of how I and others around me use > the term. "Knowing something," is what I would say about something and > mean: "having a capable response (act) according to some previous > stored information (data) from an experience (act). " In this sense, > 'knowing' is really just a different way of describing experiencing. > To experience, is thus, to know. (assumes our conscious state of mind) > We just tend to stereotypically use the term "knowing" to reference > mostly recordable type media like words, spoken or written, or things > we can examine literally. > Decartes may have started with "I think, therefore, I am." But it > isn't necessary to question his philosophy now. You may clearly start > with the your own existence as a presumption. And as I've shown, if > you mentally follow the logic of what I've said earlier, you can > safely conlude that you are a capable 'knower' and I presume, "know" > things. > You can carry on a self-evident journey of discovery of many > philosophical areas from this starting point because you are the only > experiencer that could gaurantee many experiences are certain. This is > why this approach is effective. > The only value I take from Descartes is this type of method > updated with a more logical set of definitions on knowing, believing, > etcetera. Why is there any need to dig deeper here? --~--~---------~--~----~------------~-------~--~----~ 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 -~----------~----~----~----~------~----~------~--~---
