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> I immediately become suspicious of anyone who is very certain of something, especially if they derived it on their own. Are you certain about this?
by ctoth 1y ago
> I immediately become suspicious of anyone who is very certain of something, especially if they derived it on their own.
Are you certain about this?
- JohnMakin 1y agono
- idontwantthis 1y agoSuspicious implies uncertain. It’s not immediate rejection.
- teddyh 1y agoAll I know is that I know nothing.
- adrianN 1y agoYour own state of mind is one of the easiest things to be fairly certain about.
- ants_everywhere 1y agoThe fact that this is false is one of the oldest findings of research psychology
- PaulHoule 1y agoMarvin Minsky wrote forcefully [1] about this in The Society of Mind and went so far to say that trying to observe yourself (e.g. meditation) might be harmful. Freud of course discovered a certain world of the unconscious but untrained [2] you would certainly struggle to explain how you know sentence S is grammatical and S' is not, or what it is you do when you walk. If you did meditation or psychoanalysis or some other practice to understand yourself better it would take years. [1] whether or not it is true. [2] the "scientific" explanation you'd have if you're trained may or may not be true since it can't be used to program a computer to do it
- lazide 1y agosaid no one familiar with their own mind, ever!
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- tshaddox 1y agoWell you could be a critical rationalist and do away with the notion of "certainty" or any sort of justification or privileged source of knowledge (including "rationality").
- at-fates-hands 1y agoIsaac Newton would like to have a word.
- elictronic 1y agoI am not a big fan of alchemy, thank you though.