As I read the past few pages, there appeared to be some disagreement on how we acquire knowledge and that someone can acquire knowledge through some other means than empirical observation of reality.
Perhaps someone could guess correctly every single time without thinking, without looking, without measuring.
That would be utterly fantastic.
You would guess every single answer correct on every test. Make the best choice every single time a choice was to be made, but there are some things that you can't guess correctly.
This type of guessing correctly can occur in a movie or animation, meaning that the entire situation is setup for the person to guess correctly.
Kind of like a magician handing you a seemingly shuffled deck of cards and then is able to tell you every card in order in the deck.
He memorized them but yet it appears as if he's guessing correctly every time.
So, another way of knowing information before it happens would be a kind of time travel, but still in that sense, you are discovering what happened through empirical means and then traveling back in time to make it appear as if you are guessing correctly every single time.
Perhaps someone could guess correctly every single time without thinking, without looking, without measuring.
That would be utterly fantastic.
You would guess every single answer correct on every test. Make the best choice every single time a choice was to be made, but there are some things that you can't guess correctly.
This type of guessing correctly can occur in a movie or animation, meaning that the entire situation is setup for the person to guess correctly.
Kind of like a magician handing you a seemingly shuffled deck of cards and then is able to tell you every card in order in the deck.
He memorized them but yet it appears as if he's guessing correctly every time.
So, another way of knowing information before it happens would be a kind of time travel, but still in that sense, you are discovering what happened through empirical means and then traveling back in time to make it appear as if you are guessing correctly every single time.
Insanity - Doing the same thing over and over again, expecting a different result