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by glitchc 1009 days ago
Well, we can start by asserting that we do not know everything. We can assert this from the contra positive: If we did know everything, then we would have an acceptable solution to all of our problems. Since we do not, it stands to reason that we don't know everything.

Once we accept that the assertion is valid, then it raises the likelihood that our understanding of the world is incomplete in some way. And furthermore is incomplete to different degrees along multiple dimensions of knowledge. Whether incomplete or wrong is a word choice, it doesn't change what's missing. So with each new discovery, our understanding improves, our wrongness decreases.
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cnity 1008 days ago
> If we did know everything, then we would have an acceptable solution to all of our problems. Since we do not, it stands to reason that we don't know everything.

This can be proven false by contradiction: it may be possible to _know_ that one of our problems has no solution.

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glitchc 1008 days ago
> This can be proven false by contradiction: it may be possible to _know_ that one of our problems has no solution.

This claim requires a bit more explanation, not sure if possible. Can you elaborate, or use an example?

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