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Re: All Along the Watchtowers.
by Kira on Feb 14, 2006 - 11:50 AM
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"One - What is knowledge but an utter belief?...This is not a conventional outlook, but it feels intuitively correct."
Yes, it is a conventional belief and it embodies exactly why philosophical skepticism drives me batty. If you really believe there can be no knowledge (that everything is a belief) what is the point of debating something like this in the first place? I am, and always will be a pragmatist about things like this. You can go on and on about your computer being a sensory artifact pumped into your brain and believing it is real, and it would probably make for a great sci-fi movie (or maybe not), but it won't have much bearing on real life scenarios. To me, if it doesn't have much bearing on real life scenarios (or what we perceive as real life, woooo, deep) I'm not all that interested in it. Different strokes I guess.
"The fallacy is a logical one and I am trying to reconcile the difference between logically rigourous thought and living from day to day. I don't think that both are possible."
No, according to this school of thought they both can't be possible. But this isn't the only school of thought.
"I made a mistake and didn't catch it on the reread. Did you really discard everything I said from that point on based on this?"
No, I'm just a real asshole when it comes to this kind of stuff. Paula Abdul is an annoying washed up pop singer who back in the 80s had a very catchy and overplayed hit song called "Opposites Attract." I guess I shouldn't be surprised that she never made it internationally. Anyway, it was supposed to be funny.
Second, after you've read and graded your thousandth college essay by the thousandth author who has the (seemingly) original idea of throwing in a (seemingly) insightful quote by a rock band as the clincher closing line...you get a little hypersensitive to it. No offense.
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