From: Erin N. (enoonan@kent.edu)
Date: Wed Jan 15 2003 - 05:28:42 GMT
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>Erin said:
>It's not useful to say knowledge is a consensus of
>opinion because the trend in this instance is away
>from knowledge.
>
>Matt:
>How can you tell? Only if you know that what was running through town was
>really a horse, i.e. only if Reality was something to corresponded to,
>could you know if the townspeople were moving farther from knowledge. If
>we only had that report, that people were moving day by day from "horse" to
>"rhino," we would tend to think that what was running through town was a
>rhino. The point is, only if you have what Hilary Putnam calls a "God's
>Eye" point of view can you hold out and say that the townspeople are moving
>away from what the thing really is. Its not just you not being a
>townsperson (say, from another town) because that would be about
>translation. The only way to hold out for True Knowledge is if someone can
>penetrate to the Way Things Really Are.
>
okay read it as a hypothetical..it was work of fiction.
I admitted you can't know in real life...but its only your opinion that you
can use that to jump to 'knowledge is consensus of opinion'.
since you can't know then why do you feel justified using the
word "knowledge" at all?
the knowledge = consensus of opinion seems about as arbitrary
jump as truth = consensus of opinion
hell let's just make apples = consensus of opinion,
who knows if that's true, what does true mean?
okay i am tired and feelign stooopid...i will think about
the knowledge you shared with me with a fresh mind tommorrow.....
oh wait how many people agree with your opinion, can I call that
knowledge yet?
erin
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