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HOW DO YOU KNOW WHAT YOU VEHEMENTLY AFFIRM TO KNOW?
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Sunday, April 27, 2008 at 1:07pm | Edit Note | Delete
Or in another words, a simply epistemological affaire: how can you know something if you are not even able to - firmly- asses the nature of my knowledge? or at least being able and available to put iot skeptically in discussion?

The plain fact is the little ability of a skeptical appreciation of the reality.
Insofar How do you perceive the perceived elements? How each one define the reality? how many times the environment is ruled by induction and inference rather by empiricism?

In an heuristic ( let's say to be reassured, for a better living ) manner we define and imagine the outside world as we prefer or as we believe or wish to believe it is. But it is not.It is a simple psychological shortcut in order to better live or just sur-vivre.

Lot of bugs, where the first one and the foremost is the gap between what we believe we know and what we really know. Without inference but simply mechanically it derives that we DO NOT FOCUS on OUR IGNORANCE but on OUR KNOWLEDGE.

Taking yourself and your knowledge less seriously is the best simplest rule: does not solve anything , just helps in starting to re-evaluate the way we see , the way we feel.

you know thuis is my obsession, michel... non linearity and chaos; and we are the examples among the ones to be struck by.... nothing is sure, nothing is definite in existence.reality is what is it ? which one is it? check out Quine's (kant and Hume somehow too)eliminative materialism

FJF


Fabrizio Jorio Fili