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Sat Mar-05-11 07:32 PM
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| There is only one thing that I know ... |
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... that I know only one thing.
That one thing is ...
that there is only one thing that I know, which is that the set of things known by me is a set with exactly one element.
You can see why Socrates went with "I know nothing", paradoxically claiming to know one thing, that one thing being that there is no such thing. It might be paradoxical, but it's a brief, memorable slogan.
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| Tuesday Afternoon
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Sat Mar-05-11 07:56 PM
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| 1. I know not that I know nothing. |
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Sat Mar-05-11 08:26 PM
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| 3. That reminds me of a joke ... |
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Sat Mar-05-11 08:24 PM
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| 2. "I know nothing, nothing!" |
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Sat Mar-05-11 08:36 PM
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| 4. Sgt. Schultz?! Basil Fawlty?!? Socrates?!?!! |
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Amateurs.
Here is a REAL intellectual pontificating!
"There are known knowns. These are things we know that we know. There are known unknowns. That is to say, there are things that we know we don't know. But there are also unknown unknowns. There are things we don't know we don't know."
Donald Rumsfeld
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