Re: dhw--Epistemological Framework (Humans)

by dhw, Tuesday, January 18, 2011, 14:00 (5057 days ago) @ xeno6696

Matt,-This discussion is becoming more and more confusing. On various threads you have now listed your categories of what YOU consider to be knowledge, claimed that "the only knowledge that exists is that we know nothing" ... which you have now changed to "the only thing we can know for certain is that we don't know anything" ... and informed Tony that you are "not interested in things that can't be known".-On this thread, we're trying at your own request to establish an epistemological framework (although despite my pleas, you and Tony are still using it to discuss dualism, which belongs to the Consciousness thread), and so in an effort to establish a coherent basis, I will confine myself to a single point, in the hope of getting a direct response.-I have (tentatively) defined knowledge as "possession of information that is accepted as being true by all those who are aware of it".-Examples of such knowledge: the sun rises in the east; 2 + 2 = 4; I have a wife, two sons and a daughter; Spain are the current world football champions; when an apple comes off a tree, it falls downwards and does not rise upwards.-This definition even allows for your distinction between knowledge and truth, so do you accept it? If not, why not? And if not, would you please define what YOU mean by knowledge. Perhaps then we can proceed a little more systematically.