Knowledge Definition and 373 Threads

A little quiz. Answer only yes or no. If you feel the need to add something other than yes or no, place it at the end of the post please. 1) Have US economic and military activities caused social/economic problems in the Middle East? 2) If your answer to Q1 was yes, is the US...

Is possible a systematic unification of the scientific knowledge? Make it sense? If so, what would be the profits and limitations of any interdisciplinary work in so distanct areas as Neurosciences, Ethology and Physics? (excepting technical applications of one field on other) Is being...

The Scientific Method is based on empirical evidence that can be duplicated and verified by more than one person or group. The operative word here is EMPIRICAL. Empirical: that which is observed or experienced; capable of being verified or disproved by observation...

I'm going to go out on a limb here and say no, but I'd still like to see what arguments you guys can produce for and against. My guess is you've probably discussed this before, but I'd still like to see it.

Don't listen when they tell you "KNOWLEDGE IS POWER." Knowledge, in the end, buys only fear, isolation, and sadness. Knowledge is darkness. Knowledge is sitting alone in the dark in your bedroom listening to wonderful music that you can't share with anyone because no one you know has...

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I have a program due in couple hours. Professor expects us to know C++ when we never really went over programming; he expects us to just know it .. anyhow I have two inputs used with scanf it's toll and norm these two values need to be put into a data file created by the program...

The bible verses above ask us To Know something Beyond Knowledge. My question is, if it is really beyond knowledge, how can i know it?

Before I begin, I found a great web site, The Internet Encyclopedia of Philosophy,http://www.utm.edu/research/iep. I've been doing some reading to gett a better handle on some philosophy terms. This is both a question and a topic for discussion if anyone is interested. Now I will define...

I've just entered the high school teaching profession after fiteen years as a professional engineer working for Ford, GM etc, and I need a bit of refreshing my skill base. The highest level I am teaching is British A level (17-18 yr old high school) qualifications - which is well inside my...

..is what humans are built for. I seriously don't think that we can know everything, or frankly should even bother to try. The beauty of thought, from birds all the way to Einstein, is the way we can approximate answers that aren't absolutely perfect, but that are good 'working models'. It is...

I'm sure this forum is frequented by people claiming to have proven or disproven aspects of relativity. In this case I am appealing to those with greater knowledge than mine, specifically in regards to the constancy of light-speed. The case has been made to me that the speed of light is not...

Other then teaching, what good is philosophy to each of us? Is it useful to our everyday reality? Is the speculation necessary? Or is it just human to ponder?

If the universe acts and evolves according to hidden structure such as the theories of modern physics and mathematics, then if this cosmic structure manifest also as microstructures such as that of the human mind, then by this could we intrinsically recognize alleged truths such as the existence...

When I first learned long ago that huge moon during moonrise is not optical distortion, but pure human mind produced illusion, I was quite astonished. http://www.amnh.org/naturalhistory/city_of_stars/21_full_moon.html It is explained away by fact that for human, atmosphere above seems...

I was wondering how it could be possible to make some other ("sci-fi" thinking, I know...) intelligent lifeform aware of human knowledge and scientific status by means of a symbol or something - assuming of course that this other lifeform can interpret two-dimensional vector graphics as a means...

Hmm... I have a new hypothesis on how knowledge (or at least, scientific knowledge) works. Knowledge, imho is does not proceed from divine inspiration, or random spurts, or gradual building up, but in a combination of these processes via a system akin to evolution. 1. Mutation. This comes...

"Faith and Knowledge" by Jacques Derrida "Faith and Knowledge" by Jacques Derrida Like others before, the new 'wars of religion' unleash themselves over the human Earth (which is not the world) and struggle even today to control the sky with fingers and eyes: digital systems and virtually...

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Here I ask if complete self-knowledge must include an infinite line of reasoning. That line would evolve from infinite introspections, each necessary to accommodate the previous external reference to knowledge accumulated. Shades of Goedel's incompleteness theorem, or more simply, the Cretan...

I heard there is a certain way to find a certain digit of Pi without knowing the digits before it. Now i tried to make a search on it, and i got some pages, but frankly couldn't understand anything in them ! So i would appreciate if someone could explain to me in a simple way how to figure out...

Knowledge is the form (external). Wisdom is the essence (internal). What point is knowledge? if it doesn't exist to serve wisdom? Which is more important? The (external) facts? Or, the (internal) experience which leads to the facts? Is it only knowledge that we seek? (physical...

Dear Reader, I've a list of questions and would be thankful if you give your set of answers and let us start a discussion on these answers. I will reveal my answers after having seen yours . New questions to be added to the list are also much appreciated. 01. What is your definition of...