question #7...
What's the difference between knowing and believing?
posted by The Editor at
6:20 AM
Nothing in this blog can be believed. If you think that anything in this blog is true or factual, you'll need to verify it from another source. Do you understand? No? Then read it again, and repeat this process, until you understand that you cannot sue me for anything you read here. Also, having been sucked into taking part in the mass-murder of more than 3 million Vietnamese people on behalf of U.S. Big Business "interests", I'm as mad as a cut snake (and broke) so it might be a bit silly to try to sue me anyway...
Monday, November 01, 2004
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8 Comments:
If my question had been a koan, Jeff, your answer would have been acceptable. :-) However, for the usual type of moron who reads this blog, could you please make an effort? Help me out a little bit, ok? :-)
Oh, and you need to go back and answer Q6. ;-)
Where I was coming from was that, for example, I know that I dropped my partner off at the airport this afternoon. I know that. And I know that I know that.
But I cannot know, for example, that the plane she got on was safe to fly in. At best I could believe that the plane was safe to fly in, but I could not claim to know that. That's what I mean about the difference between knowing and believing.
Is making this distinction important? I think so.
How would you define sanity?
that's not a very satisfying definition, Jeff...
So sanity is a purely subjective thing defined by each individual as they see fit? Not a very useful definition, Jeff.
I prefer something like "the ability to differentiate, after an experience, the between dreaming and awakeness, the between halucination and reality." Or something like that.
IN my previous comment, the last two "the" shopuld be deleted. I don't know why I put them there. Insanity perhaps. I am but an egg. Thou art god. :-)
Jeff: Robert Heinlein - Stranger In A Strange Land. Read it. You'll love it.
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