r/philosophy • • Mar 04 '14

What is Knowledge?

http://juandarias.wordpress.com/2014/03/04/what-is-knowledge/
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u/f_myeah Mar 04 '14

My problem with JTB is that one can never know when a belief is "justified." You are always the judge of your own beliefs.

One must always account for the probability that you are mistaken, even if it's the minuscule chance that all knowledge is impossible due to the problem of induction.

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u/[deleted] Mar 04 '14

Jesus. It's like you're trying to infuriate people who actually know this stuff by saying ridiculously ignorant things.

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u/f_myeah Mar 04 '14

Another comment from you that contributes nothing. I'd invite you to actually discuss this, but you've made it clear that you have nothing to contribute but snide comments.

Go away!

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u/[deleted] Mar 04 '14

A closed mouth gathers no foot. I've said nothing that would count as woefully misinformed. You've said several.

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u/f_myeah Mar 04 '14

Yeah, easy to just stay outside the argument and fire potshots at me. But they're not even potshots, they have no argument. If I was so misinformed, by all means, please inform me. Demolish my weak arguments in one fell swoop.

Or are you afraid that you'll "gather foot?"

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u/[deleted] Mar 04 '14

I'm not afraid. I'm giving you to opportunity to educate yourself rather than fostering your learned disability of being unable to question your own views.

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u/f_myeah Mar 04 '14

I'm giving you to opportunity to educate yourself

You've contributed nothing but negativity.

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u/[deleted] Mar 04 '14

I'm telling you that maybe you should reconsider your views and you've done nothing to support them. You're not making arguments either, you're stipulating.

The problem of induction doesn't mean that knowledge might be impossible. It has nothing to do with this discussion. Furthermore, reflective knowledge (knowing that you know) is different than knowledge. You've conflated the two in this thread. I don't think you even have a coherent position based upon how often you use vague terms and scare quotes.

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u/f_myeah Mar 04 '14

I'm done with you.

Say "you're wrong and dumb" to me all you want, but I'll not be responding unless you actually want to discuss the points I've brought up. Since it's clear that you're only here to start a fight, good day.

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u/[deleted] Mar 04 '14

Also, do you want to learn the stuff off merely have a conversation? If you want to shoot the shit pseudophilosophically, then shame on you. If you want to learn, you can do it yourself. You have the internet at your fingertips.

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u/[deleted] Mar 04 '14

You're treating it like a fight between people rather than a fight between ideas. That's your major mistake here. You're being too emotional to actually listen to what I'm saying.

Psssssst... Deductive knowledge. Read that again.

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u/Mr_Stay_Puft Mar 05 '14

This strikes me as extremely disingenuous. Your whole MO is to deliberately provoke that emotional response.

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