What's stopping us from seeing the truth?

[Arising_uk]

YOU ARE BARKING MAD!!

And you pretty much never address a question but for someone who says they hold to the "'I only know that I know nothing" maxim you sure do talk a lot about it and ask very few questions, unlike Socrates who coined the phrase.

[SpheresOfBalance]

YOU ARE BARKING MAD!!

And you pretty much never address a question but for someone who says they hold to the "'I only know that I know nothing" maxim you sure do talk a lot about it and ask very few questions, unlike Socrates who coined the phrase.

Stop trying to save face, and move along little girl! Most everything you say is BS.

[Ginkgo]

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If as you say, all knowledge is a posteriori, were does absolute truth fit in? Are there two types of knowledge or are we still talking just one?

[Arising_uk]

Stop trying to save face, and move along little girl! Most everything you say is BS.

I'm not you paranoid loon. I'm stating where I think the 'truth' can be found in modern philosophy.

[SpheresOfBalance]

Stop trying to save face, and move along little girl! Most everything you say is BS.

I'm not you paranoid loon. I'm stating where I think the 'truth' can be found in modern philosophy.

Quit trying to change the subject, coward. Is that why you engage me, just to be nasty and rude? I make a statement minding my own business, and you just have to deliver an unsolicited answer in some sarcastic condescending way, grow up and take responsibility for a change. You seem to be such a child, arguing over the most ridiculous childlike things. You don't like me and I don't like you, as you are a nasty lying person. Oh, and the loon is only to be found in your mirror!

[Thundril]

I used to have a pair of loons. It was the early 1970's and my one and only attempt to be fashionable. Ever. They were they worst trousers I ever wore.

[SpheresOfBalance]

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If as you say, all knowledge is a posteriori, were does absolute truth fit in? Are there two types of knowledge or are we still talking just one?

I see that the absolute truth started with the beginning of our universe and is all actuality up to this very moment. Life started, of this absolute truth and, is the absolute truth. From the very beginning life had to be cognizant of at least it's needs. It slowly developed more and more the need to not only understand that it needed things to survive, but to further understand how to manipulate those things so as to take more control of it's needs. Along this chain of eventual evolution man finally came into being, and with this complex life, came more and more need to understand how things worked, so as to better care for them selves. The problem was that mankind was at the end of an extremely long chain of events, after the infinite facts that brought him into being, such that he had to reverse engineer the absolute truth of the universe, starting from scratch. Because of the magnitude of such an endeavor it would take much time, and be fraught with many falsehoods of belief, which were often a result of his selfish agendas and limitations. But slowly but surely he uncovers more and more of the absolute truth of the universe dispelling his previous belief of falsehoods, continuing to amass absolutely true knowledge, all of it being a posteriori, after the fact of experience. But always his selfish agendas and limitations get in his way of knowing the absolute truth, one of the primary being arrogance that feeds his ego. Arrogance allows him to fool himself into believing that he's smarter than the other constituents of the absolute truth of nature, as he continues to feed his arrogance, thus increasing his false beliefs and clouding his vision of absolute truths, and all for the sake of his ego. A priori knowledge being one of those things born of his arrogance and thus ego, so that he could take credit for those things that are in fact the culmination of his legacies, all of which were once a posteriori and thus born of experience.

[MJA]

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If as you say, all knowledge is a posteriori, were does absolute truth fit in? Are there two types of knowledge or are we still talking just one?

One is nature's single truth.

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[Ginkgo]

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If as you say, all knowledge is a posteriori, were does absolute truth fit in? Are there two types of knowledge or are we still talking just one?

One is nature's single truth.

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[MJA]

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If as you say, all knowledge is a posteriori, were does absolute truth fit in? Are there two types of knowledge or are we still talking just one?

One is nature's single truth.

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[Thundril]

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[MJA]

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Oh yeah.

silly me. (forehead slap!)

[SpheresOfBalance]

I used to have a pair of loons. It was the early 1970's and my one and only attempt to be fashionable. Ever. They were they worst trousers I ever wore.

You see pants and I see birds, that have the calming voice of nature. But yes all of humanity has a little loon in them to one degree or another, and as such it's impolite, and self defeatist, to comment on it, depending on the mode of delivery, of course.

[Ginkgo]

Well done MJA, you must be The Internet Chat Room Whisperer. You have calmed everyone down.

Good work