2007-05-06 14:16:35 · 10 answers · asked by Micky D 3 in Arts & Humanities ➔ Philosophy
It depends on which definition of knowledge you mean. There is no universally agreed definition. It sounds like you are talking about being 100% certain that something is true. Well, there is no universally agreed upon definition for truth either.
My own opinion is that before we can absolutely know anything, we have to know everything. Why? Lets say we "know" that the sky is blue. Later on, you can *gain new knowledge* that shows we were wrong. For example, you could decide that since there are skies on other planets in our solar system, and few of them are blue, then there is no "the sky". Or you could decide that just "blue" isn't enough to describe the color of the sky, and that you have to say its "sky blue". Or, we could learn that everyone actually percieves color in completely different way and that what you call blue, most people see as green. The point is that you can learn new things that uncover why what you thought was a 100% guarantee may not be true after all.
Until we know *everything*, then we can't say anything is 100% proven. Thats why there is this saying: The older you get, the less you know. People over time run into situations where they "knew" something, but now realize they were wrong. So only once you learn everything there is to learn can you know anything. And, how would one have solid proof that they have learned everything there is to learn? We may never know anything 100%.
When someone knows something, they *feel* certain but can still be wrong. You can think you know, but you can't know you know.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Truth
2007-05-06 14:23:24 · answer #1 · answered by Citizen80285bnz 2 · 1⤊ 0⤋
Science, math, logics etc. are formed from our language, base upon a human perception are still all thoughts in progress.
We discover more each and every day... and we are meant to learn more each and every day!
2007-05-06 21:25:35 · answer #2 · answered by lolitakali 6 · 1⤊ 0⤋
We each know our own reality. Each reality differs from person to person. Perception is reality. Therefore, 6 billion and one realities exist. 6 Billion because there is one for each person and then the real one. since someone has to perceive that reality for it to exist there must be a greater power than man.
Holy crap!!!! I was just wandering through a disjointed thought process and I proved God exists! Do I get a cookie or something?
2007-05-06 21:23:41 · answer #3 · answered by Black Jacque Chirac 3 · 1⤊ 1⤋
Given time we may understand, but we never really will understand anything.
Time is our nemesis as humans.
2007-05-06 21:34:36 · answer #4 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋
I know that certain things affect me.....maybe other humans realize this too?
2007-05-06 21:25:24 · answer #5 · answered by someone 5 · 0⤊ 0⤋
http://www.marxists.org/reference/subject/philosophy/works/en/berkeley.htm
Of the Principles of Human Knowledge.
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Source: Of the Principles of Human Knowledge (1710). From very old edition. First 20 or so pages.
2007-05-06 21:39:46 · answer #6 · answered by Psyengine 7 · 0⤊ 0⤋
We are the only species who knows how to save ourselves from extinction and yet the only species who are making ourselves extinct....we may know too much.
2007-05-06 21:21:19 · answer #7 · answered by T Time 6 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Yes, we know everything, we've just forgotten it in the trauma of manifesting this physical existence.
2007-05-06 21:21:22 · answer #8 · answered by LindaLou 7 · 1⤊ 0⤋
WE know how to write and speak, how to do math.
How to build machines.
How to change things when things go bad.
2007-05-06 21:23:28 · answer #9 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋
I know that I don't know much even though I actually know a lot.
2007-05-06 21:20:54 · answer #10 · answered by MJ 3 · 0⤊ 0⤋