What can we know for sure?

Answer 1

we will die

Answer 2

The answer is simplicity itself.
You can know the colours you perceive, but not if they really exist.
You can know the feel of the seat on your bum ,but not if there really is a seat or a bum.
You can know the meanings of words ,but not find truth through them.
You can know the rumble of traffic ,but not if there is a listener.

In short ,you can experience with the six senses, but cannot deduce any ultimate facts from those experiences.
You can think ,deduce and act but you cannot assume ownership of these things.

Touching the cup is a fact. The cups concrete existence is an idea.
The cup exists ,but to claim that knowledge is presumptuous.
The cup can be used ,and the using experienced , but if there is knowing ,then the mind is drinking an idea, and ideas are not the thing.

Answer 3

What can we absolutely know for sure?

We know things that we see to be true. Anything beyond that is up for discussion.

We know that we are born, live, and then die.

You only really know what you learn or what you experience. If there is anything that you have not learned about or that you have not experienced, you cannot really know about it.

I don't agree with others saying that you can't know anything for sure. That isn't true at all. I know that my eyes are blue. I know this for a fact, but this is only because I have been taught what blue is. We take what we already know and apply it to other things. You didn't ask about belief or feeling, so I thought I would leave all of that out.

Answer 4

If we believe Descartes, we can truly know only two things:
"I exist" and "God exists". For me, the latter is something of a jump, especially when dealing with a theory based around doubt.

That leaves me with "I exist". All else is open to doubt, if you want to look at it that way - even our senses if you buy into the 'evil deciever' argument.

Personally, I know two things: It's all real and it's all good.

Answer 5

1. we were born, or we wouldn't be in a position to know anything one way or the other

2. that, having been born and therefore being alive, we will die

3. that there are a few things besides the above that we also know, maybe less surely.

Answer 6

Nothing in fact.
Even death is not sure.
I am not sure even the sun will set to or it will rise tomorrow.
I am not sure if I can have a next sip from the black coffee before me.

Answer 7

Perfectionism leads to paralysis. You trap yourself when you add "for sure," which shouldn't be taken into consideration. Go with whatever is enough to go on; wait for certainty and you will certainly rot.

Answer 8

The answer "knowledge is impossible" is itself knowledge, so that answer negates itself. I know I exist. If I didn't exist, then I couldn't doubt my own existence. Also I know existence exists because there is something feeding my senses data. Now if you say that our senses are fooling us or are unreliable, how would you know that without using your senses? So that also negates itself. So there is a start.

Answer 9

our names
that we all die
that no ones prefect
that the sun will come up in the morning and the moon at night
that the world keeps turning
and time moves on no matter how hard we try to stop it

Answer 10

We know nothing for sure other than one day we will die

Answer 11

Something
because there never was 'nothing' and 'everything' is found in 'nothing' and 'something' was created from the nothing to hold everything

When we search for an answer to something, it opens the mind to something else so there will always be something to learn, something to discover something beginning and something ending