Reason Not The Only Source of Knowledge

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Zelalem Mekonnen’s avatar
Zelalem MekonnenOP, about 1 month ago·#1633·· Collapse

The source of knowledge is myths. Reason criticizes them and we get myths that are testable (if knowledge about the physical world), hard to vary and make some assertion about reality. Popper highlighted the myth and testable nature of scientific knowledge, and Deutsch highlights hard to vary and explanation/assertion nature of knowledge.

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Dennis Hackethal, about 1 month ago·#1646·· Collapse

Criticism is a form of knowledge. How does reason have access to criticism if reason is not the source of knowledge?

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Zelalem MekonnenOP revised 15 days ago·#1734·· Collapse

Religion is a form of knowledge, but it is not reasonable. It holds some truths, but it is not reasonable. Knowledge can come from myths, which are not reason.

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Dennis Hackethal, about 1 month ago·#1655·· Collapse

This is largely a duplicate of #1633. You’d want to avoid repeating ideas.

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Zelalem Mekonnen’s avatar

This misses the point of the post before it. Knowledge starts as myths and contains myths. Reason makes it hard to vary, thus reasonable to take as true until the myths in that theory itself are corrected.

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Dennis Hackethal’s avatar

I pointed out a circularity in #1655. Instead of resolving the circularity, you posted another idea repeating the same circularity. That makes no sense.

Even if I was somehow mistaken about there being a circularity, repeating the same idea doesn’t correct that.

Please read the discussion ‘How Does Veritula Work?’ in its entirety before continuing here.

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Dennis Hackethal’s avatar

This should be marked a criticism.

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