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cannislupus said:
I was not referring to any specific point of view. I simply say is it possible not to have any kind of knowledge? İncluding that you don't know?
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Clustered recap of my posts in this thread on the issue "knowledge"(I posted that in Dillinger's thread but he is on study-ban)

Aldebaran said:
There is no knowledge, only the suggestion thereof.
The "of" is what people imagine to be knowledge, which in fact is only a self- suggestion, hence doesn't exist outside the mind of the individual.

Knowledge is not an illusion because somewhere it resides, out of reach for the human mind. That is the only problem.
Knowledge is an eternal absolute, a beginning and endmark, unchangeable.
That is why it is out of reach for the human mind and hence should be treated as non-existent.

There is no truth possible without knowledge, let alone an "obvious" truth. Would it be obvious everyone would know it.

Belief can't equate " to know" in no matter which sense. They are quite the opposite of eachother.
Belief is not knowledge and can't be knowledge or there would not be the requirement for belief to exist. And since knowledge doesn't exist, only the suggestion thereof, belief is all there is.
Would I have knowledge, I wouldn't need experience (which induces belief) nor belief.

That doesn't exclude that neverthless suggestions of knowledge or aspects thereof can be of use or can be and are used.
People don't need the word "knowledge" to imagine possessment of what it is supposed to mean to those who do use it . Even people who don't know the word "knowledge" will live under the delusion of having what is understood by using it. They believe to have knowledge.
There is no knowledge needed for being a thinking thing... You "are" as often as you think you are.
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I never said or shall ever claim that conclusion=knowledge.
If you want, you can prove me wrong on all of it.

salaam.
 
Jonti said:
This is pretty much what everyone but the grasshoppers is saying, in many different ways. A scientist might put it: Knowledge is something we strive for, but never quite achieve. We can never be certain.
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The difference being that far too often scientists reasons that knowledge is within reach, if only humans strive long enough.

salaam.
 
Max? Sound silly? Dont be absurd.

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