for the latter wouldn't that be lying?

by Anonymous 10 years ago

I don't think it means you actually answer every question with "i don't know", but rather that for any question, "I don't know" is a viable answer that could arise. It could be applied to any question in the world, when you think about it. It's a very strong relativist stance.

by Anonymous 10 years ago

it depends or maybe... I just don't know GET IT? BAHAHA ._. inb4 LAAAAAAAAAAAME

by Anonymous 10 years ago

You CAN............if you want to appear clueless or without substance.

by Anonymous 10 years ago

that sounds like something an absolutist would say to discredit a relativist. how does acknowledging ones own lack of absolute knowledge on difficult matters make them clueless? Have you never heard the saying "wisest is he who knows that he does not know"

by Anonymous 10 years ago

If you want to look at it that way - everything you just said is relative and has no bearing on anything in the universe. The OP stipulated answering the MAJORITY of questions with his 2 cited responses. If those are the 2 responses to the majority of questions asked him (or to anyone), then my response was in order. Also, nowhere does the OP designate "difficult matters" - so you have read in to the post your own interpretation. I would propose that many (if not most) questions asked of us by friends, relatives, or strangers, can be answered from/with the general knowledge we possess. But to label me with the term "absolutist" only shows a bias on your part towards most things being relative. I am much broader and more open ended than you have given me credit for.

by Anonymous 10 years ago

First, I didn't call you an absolutist, I said that your comment SOUNDED LIKE something an absolutist would say. Second, you're definitely missing the point of this question - the OP doesn't say that we should or do answer every question with either of the two answers listed, but rather that those two responses are absolutely possible. It's an interesting point when you really think about it. How often can a single answer be used so widely and with such a massive range of topics? I really think you're missing the OP's point, and mine for that matter.

by Anonymous 10 years ago

If I missed it, I don't know how to make it up. I can only respond to things as they "hit" me. When I read something in print, it is processed a certain way - just as it is with anyone else. The processing may or may not follow any OP's line of thought, and that is something none of us has control over. I did not take offense to your comments. I simply reply and respond in kind.

by Anonymous 10 years ago

I sense in there that you're trying to, in some roundabout politician-style way, say that you were wrong...

by Anonymous 10 years ago

Actually, not at all. I just don't see what the point is of butting heads with someone continuously. You obviously take issue with my comments, and say I don't see things your way. I can live with it far easier than you seem to be able to. If you want to be right, then you are right. I was the first person to comment on this post, and YOU have been the only one to take issue with me. It would have been nice if the OP would follow his own post and sort of "steer" the comments or "clarify" what he actually intended. Since he did not, I completely stand by my first comment.

by Anonymous 10 years ago

Still I refuted your first comment as wrong because it's unfair and inaccurate to claim someone is clueless of without substance for saying either they don't know or it depends. In fact, quite the opposite. It shows a wider understanding of an issue, and/or the humility to acknowledge a lack of understanding. Neither of these outcomes warrant your own negative appraisal of their intelligence or depth.

by Anonymous 10 years ago

But I guess YOUR negative appraisal of my comment is perfectly warranted and 100% correct. I already told you, since you want to be right so bad, you are right. And you can't possibly make me agree with you - so if you wish to continue arguing with yourself, you have my full permission and blessing.

by Anonymous 10 years ago

If you don't want to see reason, then that's your problem. Deal with it. End of.

by Anonymous 10 years ago

it depends on your knowledge

by Anonymous 10 years ago

It is impossible to "know" anything. Anyone who claims to is a liar.

by Anonymous 10 years ago

http://www.amirite.com/754000-a-person-who-has-lied-and-a-person-who-is-a-liar-may-not-be-the-same-person-almost-everyone-has I disagree because to know is to be aware of I am aware of apples I know they are there my "know" is based on what my senses pick up on whether they are accurate or not is another story there are things I know when I am dreaming and there are things I know when awake

by Anonymous 10 years ago

Well you are better person than I am. I do not know that they are there. I suspect they are. But this could be a dream.

by Anonymous 10 years ago

that's what I'm saying even if this is a dream in dream world, it is what I know

by Anonymous 10 years ago

OH I GOT SOMETHING remember when you said this: http://www.amirite.com/758257-it-is-not-a-lie-to-be-mistaken-viczinc so how can someone be a liar if they truly believe they know?

by Anonymous 10 years ago

It's not a lie if they are mistaken. If they truly believe they know, then they are mistaken.

by Anonymous 10 years ago

by Anonymous 10 years ago

I lean more towards your view than being able to actually know. We think we know many things, but EVERYTHING we "know" comes from some source that we can never fully verify. But for the sake of discussion - if you took an infant and raised it in a fully secured one room cubicle, without any outside world contact (other than the person raising it), you could teach that child anything you chose to and it would only KNOW such. If I were the person raising it and held up an apple and called it a banana, I could teach the child that information. I could teach it that 2 + 2 = 50 or any other combination of thoughts, ideas, and concepts. It would have nothing to challenge or question its learning by/with, so everything I taught it would be its TRUTH, REALITY, and KNOWLEDGE.

by Anonymous 10 years ago

I subscribe to this: To know, is to know that you know nothing. That is the meaning of true knowledge. -Socrates

by Anonymous 10 years ago

Guess I am on the right track then, because without knowing his quote I have said within myself for quite some time that the more I know the less I know. So essentially what he said.

by Anonymous 10 years ago