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The only truth available is that there are no other truths. We have exactly one truth available to us. (This is a form of epistemological monism.) Ironically,
by Der_Einzige 7y ago
The only truth available is that there are no other truths. We have exactly one truth available to us. (This is a form of epistemological monism.)
Ironically, It's Plato (through Socrates) who says "I know that I know nothing" but it should be fixed to say "I know that I know nothing else"
"the truth that there are no truths is a truth" is a cop out. It can easily be resolved and the statement "I know that I know nothing else" is coherent
- psychoslave 7y agoIf at first, the only truth available to us is that we don't have any other truth available to us than existence, then we just built an other truth, and we can construct other truths in a similar way, don't we? If we have the power to access any truth, then we have the power to access truth of our power to access the previous truth, and so on. Not only do we know that truth exists, but also we are aware that not every representations that come to our mind are truth. One might even consider that most representations that occupy our mind are unchecked untruths, but that doesn't undermine our ability to explore and gain new truth knowledge in some absolute way.