Is it possible to know nothing?

Question

If you answer yes, know that man may be God’s lie? Before you argue define the word "lie", for it has more than one meaning, and aside from that look into the possiblity that it holds correct no matter which meaning you give it. Think for a real long time, before you begin to prove it right or wrong. Make your choice. Yes / No

Answer 1

I can think for eons and if I come up with just one question as a return of my toils and troubles even then I cannot claim that to be the question no one can answer, or that one should spend that and that amount of time even before claiming to understand it. For every answer is to be answered according to the understanding of the one who chooses to answer not necessarily for the pleasure of the one who asks – questions should be asked, for they are not claims to knowledge but to the want of it. The question is valid, but the condition you have laid for it is not.

It is possible to know nothing. Once I have known everything, and there is absolutely nothing left to be known, I could know humility and ask for nothing at all but nothing, so that I may know all things from the start.

Answer 2

What do you mean "know that man may be God’s lie"? Your questions appear to be twisted or perhaps there is hidden ill intentions attached to it. How can you KNOW something when you even perceive it as nothing? If you tend to argue with the existence of the divine being called GOD, that is something lies within the heart of an individual which is unfathomable by others? It is driven after all by faith. Just like knowledge, it is one of the treasures of your heart that people can't take away from you. If you say so that it is all a lie, then perhaps somebody has appeared to you coming from deep Hades and told that God didn't exist after all.

Answer 3

The pseudo-philosophy in your "extra details" bears no relationship to your question.
No, you cannot know nothing unless you are brain-dead.
Now, what does "man may be God's lie," "lies have more than one meaning," and "lies hold correct no matter which meaning you give it," have to do with the question?
Why do you tell us to "think for a real long time" before we tell you that "nothing" is not "something" and only "something" can be known?
The problem will pseudo-philosophy is that those who use it know just enough to appear as pseudo-thinkers.

If you had left all that extra information out, my answer would have been different, but would still confirm that "nothing" is not "something".

Answer 4

Before we can answer, we need to be sure of what "know" means.

Not every true opinion is known. My opinion that I shall not die today may turn out to have been correct; I cannot be said to know it.

Does knowledge need the level of certainly commonly called proof? In that case, we know very little; perhaps nothing. How much can any of us prove? Even Descartes' "I think, therefore I am" has a gaping hole in it (it assumes the consistency and continuity of the consciousness necessary to conceive "I" as an entity).

So I know nothing. It doesn't bother me: like the rest of the human race, I have fenced my life with a scaffolding of more or less speculative hypotheses. That will do for me.

Answer 5

to deny that you cannot know nothing as that in itself is something, is a logical truth.... but that's logic for ya... always there to usurp a better meaning than it can provide itself....

failing to know anything is possible - it is the goal of mediation and i have heard it described as 'open hollow mind', this is the discarding of the idea that all the somethings you know total anything worthy and moving beyond them...

the quality of the statment "I know i know nothing" cannot be ignored by use of the statement - "that in itself is something" that is semantics on the meaning of the word nothing!
Nothing is not quantifiable in this aspect, everything is nothing, to know you know nothing is to know everything you know is worth nothing, it does not mean that you do not have a even one single piece of knowledge!

those who choose YES see beyond reason and logic

Answer 6

Yes! But I dont think there was anyone so unfortunate in this world. Its possible only when you are deaf, dumb, blind and have even lost your sense of touch and smell!
Being Deaf Dumb and Blind...even Hellen Keller knew a lot frm touch n smell!

Answer 7

If you can define the word 'nothing', then you know something about nothing.

Answer 8

Yes, very simple...Know Thyself!0!

Good luck!

Answer 9

no it isnt possible then again it depend in what context were talking

Answer 10

If you know nothing still you know that nothingness.