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uawchild

(2,208 posts) Mon Oct 19, 2015, 01:28 PM Oct 2015

Saw a bumper sticker today...

Made me laugh -- then think. lol It said:

DON'T BELIEVE WHAT YOU THINK YOU KNOW

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Saw a bumper sticker today... (Original Post) uawchild Oct 2015 OP

dang, Pyrrhonianism, you can't escape it even when you thought you have! MisterP Oct 2015 #1

oh wow! uawchild Oct 2015 #2

that's small-S skeptics, I hasten to add ... MisterP Oct 2015 #3

MisterP

(23,730 posts)

1. dang, Pyrrhonianism, you can't escape it even when you thought you have!

Reply to uawchild (Original post)

Mon Oct 19, 2015, 02:07 PM

Oct 2015

uawchild

(2,208 posts)

2. oh wow!

Reply to MisterP (Reply #1)

Mon Oct 19, 2015, 04:01 PM

Oct 2015

Thanks for that insight!

"Pyrrho of Elis (c. 360-c. 270 BCE) is usually credited with founding the school of skepticism. He traveled to India and studied with the "gymnosophists". From there, he brought back the idea that nothing can be known for certain. The senses are easily fooled, and reason follows too easily our desires."

Dang, "reason follows too easily our desires", ain't that the truth.

Thanks again, now I really need to get that bumper sticker. lol

MisterP

(23,730 posts)

3. that's small-S skeptics, I hasten to add ...

Reply to uawchild (Reply #2)

Mon Oct 19, 2015, 04:26 PM

Oct 2015

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but the Greeks (and presumably Egyptians) wrote a lot on how the more you learn the less you know that you know, which is a similar process

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/De_Docta_Ignorantia

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