Other ways of knowing, and how they work, now revealed

[Silent3]

Happy April Fool's Day

[onager]

1. Kicking..

[Silent3]

4. Self-fulfilling prophecies...

...can be a beautiful thing.

[cbayer]

2. From Schooling the World

[edhopper]

3. There is nothing wrong with her singing to the stones and water.

Now if she heard them speak back to her, then I would say she needed help.

[Silent3]

5. That may be a way of being...

...of behaving, of interacting with the world, but there is no demonstration of special knowledge here, either in being the grandmother or being the understanding granddaughter.

[cbayer]

6. As far as you know...

[Silent3]

7. In other words, "I can't prove you wrong"...

...if you want to believe there's something more going on here, a special kind of knowing.

Maybe I know the grandmother is from another planet. You can't prove that wrong either.

[cbayer]

8. Prove me wrong? I'm not making any kind of claim.

[skepticscott]

9. Except the implicit claim that what you cited qualifies

as "another way of knowing" about the world. Otherwise, why is it remotely relevant to this thread?