What can we hope to achieve with reason, when all the material and assistance of experience are taken away?
2007-08-27 03:18:27 · 12 answers · asked by Third P 6 in Arts & Humanities ➔ Philosophy
Reason is the only solid thing which we possess.
The material world is only a shadow we perceive, it is reason which lets us decide the reality of material things.
Experience bereft of reason is just stuff that happened. There can be no learning without reason.
Cognito ergo sum defines the victory of reason in proving existence via awareness. It is from this rational high ground that all experience and knowledge of the material world becomes possible, hence reason is the key to knowledge.
Absolute knowledge is only possible when we achieve a perfect understanding of the cosmos, a task none of us are up to yet, though it is possible in theory.
2007-08-27 03:32:56 · answer #1 · answered by Duncan w ™ ® 7 · 3⤊ 1⤋
Think about this: If all your experience were taken away, & all materialistic things, would this question be asked? IF there is "absolute knowledge," I doubt we humans will learn it.
Still--knowledge is of the intellect; knowledge is acquired by the mind. Knowledge serves our Newtonian world, & is in that sense, "necessary."
What of "other" worlds & dimensions? I suspect knowledge is not even a word, there.
2007-08-27 13:18:43 · answer #2 · answered by Psychic Cat 6 · 1⤊ 1⤋
I do not understand 'taken away' in an unambiguous singular description, i.e. there is more than one description for ''taking away''. The most simple description for what we achieve with reason is the knowledge of our imperfect actions, identifying them in our erroneous results or consequences (expectation mismatch or unexpected negative) and as a minimum transformation, abort same action for same external or internal (or internal/external) fact set. When the unexpected is positive, we learn something positive we may positively use, if negative, we learn to negate the negation before it is again realized. If not for self, then for other.
The Will is positive, the Judgment is negative. What negative is not absolute knowledge in its negativity.
2007-08-27 13:53:59 · answer #3 · answered by Psyengine 7 · 0⤊ 2⤋
No. knowledge is a never ending quest. Reason is just a tool to help sort through experience.
2007-08-27 03:33:08 · answer #4 · answered by phil8656 7 · 1⤊ 0⤋
Unless experiential perception and logical perception combine, no knowledge is born. However, because we have learned to communicate so well, knowledge does not depend on own experience alone..... however, reasoning has to be own to form knowledge... otherwise it would just be memory.
2007-08-27 03:56:56 · answer #5 · answered by small 7 · 1⤊ 0⤋
Absolutes are illusions of understanding. We can achieve whatever we can believe. Nothing can be taken away to prevent that.
2007-08-27 04:13:13 · answer #6 · answered by midnite rainbow 5 · 0⤊ 0⤋
No way honey ..there is not such thing as "absolute knowledge".
Actually as much as one knows, one finds out that one doesn't know anything.
2007-08-27 03:50:54 · answer #7 · answered by NA 4 · 3⤊ 0⤋
Experience is only one way to learn. We can also learn through observation. We can also learn through hypothesizing. Experience isn't all that its cracked up to be.
You can burn your hand on a stove through the experience or you can watch someone else do this and realize the same outcome will likely happen for you. Experience is often a foolish route.
2007-08-27 03:33:03 · answer #8 · answered by guru 7 · 0⤊ 1⤋
No.I'm quite happy to forgo reason and logic and live where I am most comfortable..the practicality of abstraction..best seen in rural areas...spearguns for rabbits anyone? You have no idea about what I am saying,do you?
2007-08-27 03:30:35 · answer #9 · answered by kit walker 6 · 0⤊ 0⤋
absolute knowledge is the knowing that knowledge is not ending
2007-08-27 03:26:05 · answer #10 · answered by sup 4 · 3⤊ 0⤋