(September 13, 2010 at 2:16 am)theVOID Wrote:(September 13, 2010 at 12:05 am)lrh9 Wrote: What is knowledge? If you ignore it, it can kill you.
What?
I was alluding to a saying that reality is that which if you ignore it kills you. Knowledge is a model of reality.
Quote:Quote:How do we gain knowledge? Observation.
So you posit that the only way we can know something is to observe it?
In a nutshell. Basically all information about reality enters our mind through our nerves. If we sometimes extrapolate models from this information... then before it becomes knowledge it must be confirmed by further observation of reality.
Quote:Quote:How do we know what we know?
Doesn't this question ask for an uninformative tautology? We know what we know because we know it.
No, it means 'given something that is known to be true, how did we arrive at the position where we believe this to be true?'
'If we have x, why do we believe we have x?'
Processes are deterministic or experimental. If a process by which we acquire knowledge is deterministic then it guarantees that we have acquired knowledge. If the process is experimental then we must have a control group to measure the result against.
Quote:Can you be said to 'know' the result of a rubgy match by correctly guessing the outcome? If not then what else must we have in order to consider something knowledge?
Is validity knowledge or is certainty knowledge?
