RE: (LONG) "I Don't Know" as a Good Answer in Ethics
November 22, 2017 at 6:24 pm
(This post was last modified: November 22, 2017 at 6:26 pm by Edwardo Piet.)
(November 20, 2017 at 9:20 pm)vulcanlogician Wrote: And (I think that this is especially true concerning ethics) those who claim to have absolute knowledge are the ones who really don’t know shit.[/font][/size]
Are you claiming that absolutely?
Because I claim absolutely that sometimes absolute claims are warranted. But I also absolutely claim that usually they are not.
And certainly not in the case of bullshit gods.
"I don't know" is always a good answer about things we can't know, which is most things, but I certainly don't claim to know that all things are unknowable or that all things are unknown
I am epistemically humble because I like to answer things with "It depends" but I don't only say that as an expression of uncertainty, but also as a shortening of "It depends what you mean". If you mean something that can be absolutely known, and is absolutely known to those who know it, then I disagree, but if you mean something that cannot be absolutely known, and isn't known to anyone, then I agree. And, remember, that even relative things must absolutely be relative.