Ep 171: Knowledge and Ignorance 6
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Thesis Four: The Most Important Source of Our Knowledge, Apart From Inborn Knowledge
By far the most important source of our knowledge, apart from inborn knowledge, is tradition. Most things we know, we have learned by example, by being told, by reading books and learning how to criticize. The fact that most of the traditional sources of our knowledge are traditional, condemns, and tie traditionalism as futile but this fact must not be held to support a traditionalist attitude. Every bit of our traditional knowledge, and even our in born knowledge, is open to critical examination and may be overthrown,. nevertheless, without tradition, knowledge would be impossible. End quote.
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