My last post elicited a comment from a reader apparently worried that, based on the contents of the post, I might be clinically depressed. Continue reading Depression and Truth
Category Archives: Epistemology
So Much To Learn; So Little Time
Euler diagram representing a definition of knowledge**
Bertrand Russell poignantly captures how philosophy aids our humility regarding knowledge while undermining our intellectual certainty,
Philosophy … while diminishing our feeling of certainty as to what things are … greatly increases our knowledge as to what they may be; it removes the somewhat arrogant dogmatism of those who have never travelled into the region of liberating doubt … Continue reading So Much To Learn; So Little Time
The Limits of Knowledge
Chris Crawford at Cologne Game Lab in 2011
© Chris Crawford– (Reprinted with Permission)
https://www.erasmatazz.com/personal/self/how-to-think-v-30/lesson-10-complexity.html
You don’t know jack. Neither do I. The world is far more complex than we realize. I have spent a lifetime learning about a huge range of topics Continue reading The Limits of Knowledge
Socrates: “I know that I know nothing”
The Delphic Tholos
I know that I know nothing – 5 interpretations
© Paul Bonea (Reprinted with Permission)
A good friend of Socrates, once asked the Oracle at Delphi “is anyone wiser than Socrates?”
The Oracle answered “No one.” Continue reading Socrates: “I know that I know nothing”
Belief and Knowledge
A marble head of Socrates in the Louvre
© Darrell Arnold Ph.D.– (Reprinted with Permission)
Socrates famously noted that “the unexamined life is not worth living.” But what exactly does an examined life require? … Continue reading Belief and Knowledge