Yes, I want to know,” said Brennan.
“Know what, exactly?” whispered the figure.
Brennan’s face scrunched up in concentration, trying to visualize the game to its end, and hoping he hadn’t blown it already; until finally he fell back on the first and last resort, which is the truth:
“It doesn’t matter,” said Brennan, “the answer is still yes.”
If you don’t care what you know, as long as you know it, you’d be better off studying theology. I have some crystals and tarot cards you’ll probably want to purchase, too.
Not necessarily. I know a large amount of halachah (Orthodox Jewish law). I don’t believe any of it. I also know a smaller amount of Catholic theology. I don’t believe any of that either. Prioritization still makes sense. These really aren’t great things to know much about if one wants any sort of real understanding.
You know the fact “the content of the halachah is _” (I don’t know what the halachah says). However, you do not know “the content of the halachah is true”, because that is a falsehood. If it were costless, I would choose to know the former, but not the latter.
But you CAN’T know the latter, not on the standard theory of knowledge as “justified true belief”. You’d have belief, but probably not justified and surely not true.
If you don’t care what you know, as long as you know it, you’d be better off studying theology. I have some crystals and tarot cards you’ll probably want to purchase, too.
That isn’t “knowing” something. That’s believing it.
Not necessarily. I know a large amount of halachah (Orthodox Jewish law). I don’t believe any of it. I also know a smaller amount of Catholic theology. I don’t believe any of that either. Prioritization still makes sense. These really aren’t great things to know much about if one wants any sort of real understanding.
You know the fact “the content of the halachah is _” (I don’t know what the halachah says). However, you do not know “the content of the halachah is true”, because that is a falsehood. If it were costless, I would choose to know the former, but not the latter.
But you CAN’T know the latter, not on the standard theory of knowledge as “justified true belief”. You’d have belief, but probably not justified and surely not true.
That hasn’t been ‘standard’ since Gettier, I think.
Sadly, people have been trying to prop up that rotting corpse ever since. Goldman is a decent example.