Often enquiring about the certainty of another's opinions shows very quickly how ignorant they are; there are some people who believe very strongly that we (and/or humans) know a lot, and others who are sure we know very little.
And others have no idea what exactly, the fuck, "knows a lot" or "knows little" means.
Well, what DOES it mean? Is there a certain standard by which knowledge can be measured?
ReplyDeleteA lot or a Little...
ReplyDeletesounds like the beginning of a kids song doesn't it?
who cares. I mean if they really knew, they wouldn't put themselves in a position of absolution to that rhetorical pondering.
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ReplyDeleteecd-Well, take, for example, science. We learn things through it, but learning something through experiment only seems to raise many more questions than it explained.
ReplyDeleteI guess, yes, we'd have to say "i think i know more about x than person y" does, but otherwise - the standard isn't absolute.
the question is how many things within human experience a given person thinks that they can explain; i am always amazed when i hear comments from people that "humans may be on the verge of discovering the ultimate underlying reality or the grand theory that"... people speculating that we're somehow going to reach a point where we can explain everything. these are the people who i think claim to "know a lot", and by that measure, i think they are ridiculous, and that we all "know only a little" and are striving to understand a little more all the time.