[lit-ideas] Re: What Every Popperian Knows
- From: John McCreery <john.mccreery@xxxxxxxxx>
- To: lit-ideas@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
- Date: Fri, 28 May 2010 20:36:22 +0900
Hear, hear.
John
On Fri, May 28, 2010 at 4:47 PM, Donal McEvoy <donalmcevoyuk@xxxxxxxxxxx>wrote:
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> --- On Fri, 28/5/10, Jlsperanza@xxxxxxx <Jlsperanza@xxxxxxx> wrote:
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> But I'm pleased that he finds it
> > all GUESSWORK, which
> > was my point.
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> I knew you'd come round eventually. Popper's point is that clearly we know
> a great deal, including details that give us surprising insight into the
> world, and yet we know nothing. The contradiction here is only apparent: we
> are using "know" in two different senses. We know much as a matter of
> critically-controlled guesswork, for example in science, but we know nothing
> for certain, nothing that we can show is infallible.
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> Insofar as philosopher's "episteme" denotes certain, infallible knowledge
> it is a chimera and the layman's use of knowledge is in truth the
> philosophically correct one in that it does not suppose what we "know" may
> not be mistaken.
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> Donal
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