2007-09-27 07:16:34 · 13 answers · asked by speedspread 1 in Arts & Humanities ➔ Philosophy
Look up the definition of Agnostic....
The truth is unknowable.
g-day!
2007-09-27 16:01:08 · answer #1 · answered by Kekionga 7 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Plato's idea is true we cannot know the whole truth.
To be able to understand the whole truth of something you need to be outside its influence and be able to look "down" up on it. This is a rule of hierarchies.
Therefore to understand the whole truth of humanity you would have to be outside humanity. You would then not be human.
And because truths extends outside the scope or system of humanity then you would have to be outside of everything. As was suggested earlier, outside the universe.
2007-09-27 14:54:49 · answer #2 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋
Well, the first thing is to attribute this idea to Socrates.
He's the one who claimed to 'Know' nothing.
I call this Principal the first enlightenment. The only thing we can be sure of is the possibility of error. The road to truth is paved with humility. One can only learn if you are aware of how much you have to learn.
Personally I don't think Plato ever truly grasped this concept. His teaching of the forms for example strikes me as as complete irrationally unmarred by any sense of the need for proof.
2007-09-27 14:58:44 · answer #3 · answered by Phoenix Quill 7 · 0⤊ 0⤋
How wonderful it is to have some perspective, dear. After constantly asking yourself what direction your life is going, doesn't it feel great to finally feel as if you know? How very wise you are! Yet all this recent wisdom is exhausting. You feel as though you've made a long trip up to the mountaintop to speak with the learned wise person at the top. Now that you're back down in civilization, it's time to find a soft bed and relax for a bit.
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2007-09-28 04:45:38 · answer #4 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋
One of the deeper meanings of Relativity is that you can never know all there is to be known about a system as long as you, yourself, are a part -of- that system.
One of the deeper meanings of Quantum Mechanics and Uncertainty is that you alter that which you are measuring by the mere act of taking a measurement. You abstract 'information' from a system and you change it in unpredictable ways.
Gödels Incompleteness Theorem in Mathematics states that within any system of axiomatized logic there will -always- be at least one statement (or axiom) which is true, but which can be neither proven nor deduced solely by using the other statements (or axioms) of the system.
Plato was (as always) -way- ahead of his time âº
Doug
2007-09-27 15:36:27 · answer #5 · answered by doug_donaghue 7 · 1⤊ 0⤋
Human limitations and language limit us only to knowing mere reflections of the Forms, according to Book V of the Republic we see only shadows on the wall of the cave.
2007-09-27 14:28:40 · answer #6 · answered by Fr. Al 6 · 1⤊ 0⤋
The truth lies outside the universe. To get there you probably have to become more than human.
2007-09-27 14:24:57 · answer #7 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋
But how depressing would existence be if there was nothing more to learn? Maybe thats why, because in order to have a reason to exist we need to keep on learning. If we knew everything life would lose all meaning
2007-09-27 16:38:43 · answer #8 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋
Truth is simple and whole. Its not important to to know the whole. Knowing the source of whole is adequate.
Whoever searches to know whole, get lost. Whole has no limit, the more u know, more it expands.
2007-09-27 14:31:47 · answer #9 · answered by dd 6 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Completely true. A lot of truth is outside our experience, so we can guess at it, but we'll never fully know.
2007-09-27 14:22:57 · answer #10 · answered by Speak 5 · 0⤊ 0⤋