Knowledge Resistance | Åsa Wikforss
Philosophy For Our Times
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Plato's Cave
We are not objective very often, right? We have a very partial understanding of things. And this is what plato was talking a lot about, how we often don't quite properly understand things or grasp ideas. Ah, so we are flawed. But that disn'tsoto effect, the property of truth. It does mean that it's really hard for us to get to truth. So when they say there is no truth, what they really mean is there is no certainty. Uncertainty is hard to come by. This is our human predicament when it comes to beliefs about the external world. A, we strive for truth, but we should always be open to the possibility that
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