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flameofanor5
10-05-08, 11:13 PM
Ok I was typing my thoughts, sorry if you have no clue what im saying, it doesn't really make sense...Well it does in my head.



”How Do You Know That You Know?” A question that must be answered to believe in anything. The bases of knowledge is faith, which means without faith, there can be no knowledge. So the question that first must be answered is the question of faith. Does God exist? Or are we here by chance? But, you can’t know what you believe without knowing what you know. So is there any way to really know what you know? If the bases of knowledge is faith, then how can we know what our faith is if we can’t know without faith. Isn’t that circular reasoning? But, if we don’t know what we know, is there really a point in living? How do we know we exist? Is it really possible to truly know what you believe? Or do we make assumptions in everything that we believe?
Do we know based off of experiences? If we do, then how do we know these experiences are real, or if they just happened by chance. If experience is our bases of knowledge, then how do we know things that we haven’t experienced; Such as the afterlife.
The question that truly must be answered first is what is our bases of knowledge? What is knowledge? To answer the question: “How Do You Know That You Know?”
We must assume that we can actually know something, to answer the question “How Do You Know That You Know?” You have to be able to trust what you believe; knowledge isn’t the only part of understanding. All you need to know if you want to know what you know. Knowing what you know is the same as knowing.
Or, is knowledge a paradox? If there is always someone who disagrees with what you believe, can there really be true knowledge? Or, is knowledge true for different people. I may believe one thing, but someone else may believe something else. Is truth really real? Or is truth something that is made up by man? Does truth even exist?

Betrayer0fHope
10-05-08, 11:53 PM
"I can lie." Tell me one situation where this is not true. I made a thread for statements like that, but I'm not sure as how to find more statements like it (ones that are always true) because I came up with the statement myself while pondering the very same question you ask.

OilIsMastery
10-06-08, 12:35 AM
I usually take the attitude that I know I know nothing. But when allegedly "scientific" people start to react emotionally or act like little girls or threaten to kill Socrates and Galileo then I start to suspect there is truth nearby.

YinyangDK
10-06-08, 01:40 AM
Knowledge is predicting.
Our mind is constantly predicting the furure of the body! Where it is at, if there is danger, Where there is food and water. Those are just basic funktions, and ín our moden way of living we do not pay that much attention to them because we are in a safe enviroment.
In other countries where it is not safe, they tend to give these funktions more active focus, and therefor are not as free as we are.
Because our minds have more freedom we can use it new predictions, like trying to predict what will happen if Smash up atoms. If we get good at predicting what happens we can set some rules as how to make this prediction happen again.
This is how we control our body and everything around us.

Betrayer0fHope
10-07-08, 05:17 PM
What kind of keyboard do you have? :bugeye: