Tales from the cave - 5 - The distance between 2 points
May 9th 2007 15:21
Someone once told us in the cave that some things are born with us. Some things you know even before seing it. For example, no one has to proove you that the smallest distance between 2 points is a straight line.
All these examples helped some men to believe that we have some knowledge in our minds a priori. Some things you know already in the time you are born.
In the same time, other men disagreed heavilly on this. They believed all knowledge comes from experience, and thus everything you know you've learned after being born.
For a long time men discussed this matter, and for a long time they kept trying to proove their sides.
The thing is: even if some things are a priori in our minds, they are not obligatory true. We saw that from plenty of cases, like the one that showed us that space and time are connected. Who would believe that?
So we here in the cave saw that, even if we are born with some knowledge a priori, it's not obligatory true. On the other hand, not all knowledge comes from experience either...but people need to experience their conclusions to make sure they are true.
The worst is that these last days it came a crazy men that showed us that even if we apply our knowledge to suppose things and proove them on experience, it is not obligatory true. Like the guy that defined a hole system thinking that space and time were separate things...
In the end, we'll never get to the truth, we can only get closer....
All these examples helped some men to believe that we have some knowledge in our minds a priori. Some things you know already in the time you are born.
In the same time, other men disagreed heavilly on this. They believed all knowledge comes from experience, and thus everything you know you've learned after being born.
For a long time men discussed this matter, and for a long time they kept trying to proove their sides.
The thing is: even if some things are a priori in our minds, they are not obligatory true. We saw that from plenty of cases, like the one that showed us that space and time are connected. Who would believe that?
So we here in the cave saw that, even if we are born with some knowledge a priori, it's not obligatory true. On the other hand, not all knowledge comes from experience either...but people need to experience their conclusions to make sure they are true.
The worst is that these last days it came a crazy men that showed us that even if we apply our knowledge to suppose things and proove them on experience, it is not obligatory true. Like the guy that defined a hole system thinking that space and time were separate things...
In the end, we'll never get to the truth, we can only get closer....
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Comment by Uula Limanski
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sorry for the late response, i've been cleaning the blog these days, found your comment..
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