(September 26, 2012 at 3:50 pm)teaearlgreyhot Wrote: I've heard this before, and in some ways it makes sense, but how is that not a self refuting statement? Aren't you effectively saying that "you know that you can't know anything"?No. I said I argue that, not that I know it to be true. It is a belief, just as everything else is a belief. I can back it up with logical evidence though, which is why I believe it to be true. By the argument itself though, I do not know whether my argument is true or not.
To think of it another way, it is perfectly possible for one of my beliefs to be absolutely true. However, given that I am a fallible being, I have no way of knowing whether any of my beliefs are absolutely true.
