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It's likely the inverse: the more knowledge, the more intellectual humility, which is just rephrasing Aristotle, “The more you know, the more you know you don't
by itsangaris 7y ago
It's likely the inverse: the more knowledge, the more intellectual humility, which is just rephrasing Aristotle, “The more you know, the more you know you don't know.”
- oh_sigh 7y agoI wouldn't be positive about that. Someone with more intellectual humility may be more likely to seek out more information and to continue learning than someone who doesn't.
- bunderbunder 7y agoI wouldn't be positive about that either. It could be that both are true, and create a virtuous cycle. Or it could be that neither is true, and it's really that both characteristics are engendered by having a curious temperament.
- toasterlovin 7y agoFWIW, I'm not sure that a curious temperament is materially different from intellectual humility.
- nemonemo 7y agoI think curiosity implies intellectual humility but the converse is not necessarily true.
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- notduncansmith 7y agoI think intellectual humility without curiosity is a form (or symptom) of depression.
- icebraining 7y agoWhy do you think so? I've met plenty of people who lead a simple life and are fine with knowing they don't know much, especially in more traditional communities, where superfluous knowledge isn't valued.
- oh_sigh 7y agoSure, but I just want to note I never made the claim it was the case - I was just offering one possible alternative to what OP claimed.
- joe_the_user 7y agoNot necessarily. At one point, before the rise of Google, most of my answers to various general knowledge questions would be more or less just a somewhat selective average of things I'd heard and read from sources. I have an educated family and background so these answers were probably "about average" for the educated but still entirely wrong a significant part of the time. At a certain point in my development, I got in the habit of asking myself "how do I know that" and Googling if I didn't know. Which is to say I think the more intellectually humble someone is, the more likely they are actually verify their ideas through research. The thing about all this is, it is happening in the era of Google, where if one has some humility, nothing keeps you from learning more (though having a basic background is needed to filter out idiocy also). Pre-Internet, the situation might have been different.
- whymsicalburito 7y agoSounds like you're proving Aristotle correct
- foxhop 7y agoEvery door of knowledge I "crack" yields twenty more locked doors.