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Originally posted by Dan_ref
Please forgive the resident philosopher, but it's not possible to know something that is false.
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Sigh. Why do philosophers feel the need to sound like a bunch of college freshmen sitting around the dorm on Saturday night smoking pot for the very first time? [/B][/QUOTE]I don't know what it's like to smoke pot for the very first time, but I imagine that you'd have to be smoking pot for my comment above
not to make sense.
Suppose you go to a buddy's house on Superbowl Sunday to watch the big game. The only problem is, your friend is a little absent-minded and accidently plays you a tape of the Raiders/Buccaneers Superbowl. You watch the whole thing and walk out convinced that the Buccaneers are NFL champs. When you mention this "fact" at work the next day, your co-worker says "Tampa didn't play in the Superbowl. New England won yesterday." You say, "No, Tampa Bay won. I watched it. I know they won yesterday."
Would you say that you really knew that Tampa Bay was the Superbowl winner for that season? Obviously not.
That just seems obvious to me. So why do you think it sounds like I'm smoking something?