Philosophy

defacto7

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2. The only thing we can know for sure is that we don't know for sure.

Mon Oct 20, 2014, 12:19 AM

Oct 2014

Which of course is a fun thing to say though it's a logical fallacy.

How do you know you are right?

I can't KNOW anything. My philosophy on the matter basically asks about the probabilities of anything. I think my perceptions are simply my perceptions, and my choices are based on those perceptions. I choose to trust any idea, person, or ideology based on how I perceive evidence. Evidence is all I have to know anything and if the evidence changes then my trust must change with it. I have no sets that allow me to be absolute. The evidence seems to be that perception and absolutes cannot coexist, therefore my perceptions can only organize by probability.

The only thing we can know for sure is that we don't know for sure.

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The only thing we can know for sure is that we don't know for sure. defacto7 Oct 2014 #2

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