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by Mandibil
Mon Jan 18, 2021 9:09 am
Forum: Topic-specific Discourse
Topic: Knowledge
Replies: 32
Views: 6405

Re: Knowledge

I am not a 'formal philosopher' by any stretch, but my 2 cents is to think of knowing and knowledge as process rather than a state. Can you give an example of such a process ? Knowing requires a dynamic process of developing internal models of the world That is science. Science is not knowledge imo...
by Mandibil
Mon Jan 18, 2021 9:05 am
Forum: Topic-specific Discourse
Topic: Knowledge
Replies: 32
Views: 6405

Re: Knowledge

You may be missing the point somewhat, but that may be as well due to unclearness in my question :-) I am interested in the jump from not knowledge to knowledge. No one can claim knowledge if they cannot explain how they make this transition, imo. To answer your answer: I don't know what I will have...
by Mandibil
Sun Jan 17, 2021 9:23 pm
Forum: General Discussions
Topic: The hard problem of consciousness
Replies: 4
Views: 1137

Re: The hard problem of consciousness

It is an inevitable artifact of the (imo) incorrect notion that what is experienced as (representing something) "outside" (the mind) is the actual "real" outside (the things in themselves) and also fundamentally different from what is experienced as only inside (the mind). It is ...
by Mandibil
Sun Jan 17, 2021 9:00 pm
Forum: Topic-specific Discourse
Topic: Knowledge
Replies: 32
Views: 6405

Knowledge

Hello I have a question about epistemology. If I know something ... I know it by definition and I would not think of questioning it ... exactly because I know it. On the other hand ... if I don't know, how do I get to the point where I can deem it knowable and at what point (in my philosophy/argumen...