How can man not know anything?

Question

i guess it is vague, but alot of people say that you cant know anything. so how is it that man can actually know nothing? how can you know that man can know nothing?

The link, but that is still a knowledge of something which is quite a bit more than nothing

Answer 1

stupid people breed stupid kids, which in turn brings about stupider people breeding. the further decay into unknowing and utter confusion continues. a person's interpretation of something that is taken as fact will only bring the standard lower, and make even common sense graded on a curve.

Answer 2

Two reasons-
#1- Limited sensory. Humans have two eyes, two ears, a nose, a mouth, some pharamone sensors, a gravity sensor in their ears, and a skin full of touch sensitive neurons. However, the ammount of information any human being can sense in his lifetime is less than one hundredth of one percent of the knowledge and possible sensory input in the universe. In other words, we have a very limited ability to observe the universe, even with all our technology, and even when the human race is factored together.

#2- Limited processing power. Our brains are the most impressive computers we know of. But on a cosmic scale, they are tiny jello molds. Our brains, for all their amazingness, are limited and finite. They can only know so much, and they are capable of errors in interpeting information, errors in judgement, and just plain irrationality. Though we have good-ol scientific method to keep us partial honest, scientific method is by no means adequate to contain human stupidity completely.

Because of these conditions, what we know represents a teeny tiny laughable fraction of what there is to know. And the accuracy of our knowledge is always in question. What we do know, we know superficially. We know that "for every action there is an equal and opposite reaction", but we have no idea what matter and energy actually are, and what their interaction in the real world is, how they dance with each other on the quantum scale and their intra-partical workings to contact and affect one another. All we can do is produce the mathematics to tell you basically what is going on. We have no idea what we are studying.

Answer 3

It was a popular trend in modern philosophy since Descartes to attack mans ablility to know anything. What if our senses are decieved? What if we are a brain in a vat? etc. These skeptical schools of thought endeavored to show the limitations of human thought. They came up with vast philosophical systems and conjectures all trying to show that maybe we don't know anything. In short, they "upheld reason to destroy reason"

The realist answer is that we can have true knowledge. By what means and how is quite a bit of a lengthier topic than this limited format will allow for.

Answer 4

By keeping in mind that reality is subjectively surreal, not existing in fact, but in thought only, flexibility becomes something of extreme importance. It also helps us realize that anything we think we know can change instantly. Man cannot actually KNOW anything.

Answer 5

Amnenia

Answer 6

Greetings Friend,

We all do know at least one thing: I am. Even if this is all a dream, an illusion, some thing has to be dreaming the dream, or perceiving the illusion. I am that.

sending love,

Answer 7

We never learn anything when we are talking. So someone who talks continuously would know nothing.

Answer 8

too vague dear.

we are but frail and puny man, we are limited in what we understand

Answer 9

he has to know something. it doesn't have to be a very inteligent something but even a newborn nows that it's cold or hungry, etc...

Answer 10

knowledge comes from the senses, but you don't know that you can trust your senses, because they can be messed with...