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# HOW DO WE REALLY KNOW ANYTHING, MAN
(, Thu 1 Sep 2011, 8:01, archived)
# oh--some of us go to school and learn how to describe abstractions
(, Thu 1 Sep 2011, 8:04, archived)
# and you believe.. THEM?!
(, Thu 1 Sep 2011, 8:09, archived)
# I knew this place was not going to be a fountain of information :)
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(, Thu 1 Sep 2011, 8:19, archived)
# okay if I put the blunt down just for a second
I think all human knowledge is fallible, thanks to subjective perception, so what we have is a socially negotiated belief system.
What we can express with certainty is our personal preferences, whether we think we know why we like something, or can't explain it at all.
 
(, Thu 1 Sep 2011, 9:39, archived)
# in other words, I don't know shit.
I've got a lot of jumped-up ideas about things, and a few wooly notions, but I don't know jack shit.
 
(, Thu 1 Sep 2011, 10:58, archived)