Replies

It's also going to be tricky to compose just the right title for the thread. I'll leave that to you, because it'll be your thread. But I can't help offering a suggestion -- not so much about the actual title, but about the concept for the thread:

What kinds of "Knowledge" exist, and how "certain" are the various types?

What kinds of "Knowledge" exist, and how "certain" are the various types? You really dig the certainty thing, eh?

I understand your unspoken oblivion to my posts, but I think the point that should be stressed again: since all knowledge is finite, all that we deem certain is hampered by what is uncertain. That is not to suggest that we must all be sophistic skeptics. It is to understand that there is more to human life than certainty. Freedom of will, human agency, and the interaction of love, is not, as a one-time-poster Jolly Rogers had it, a pure function of reason.

Thank you so much for the suggestion! I will add the necessary preface to encourage the correspondents:

Freeper Investigation: What kinds of "Knowledge" exist, and how "certain" are the various types?

I will be specifically soliciting responses like js1138's at post 1087. Yours, mine and js1138's will be used as examples.

So far, my initial ping list will be: PatrickHenry; atlaw; js1138; betty boop; cornelis; marron; LogicWings; r9etb; Ronzo; RightWhale; OhioAttorney; ckilmer; xzins; Hank Kerchief

These are correspondents who have recently posted on or near the subject of the investigation (as best I can recall off the top of my head).

I also added Hank Kerchief who has a philosophy ping list, but I don't know if he'll be interested in this subject. I added xzins because he also has a "list" albeit perhaps informal of correspondents interested in the theological ramifications of such things.

Hank and xzins, to get an idea what the fuss is all about you might want to read forward from post 1085.

The science ping list for which you are now famous surely includes people who are exhausted from years of contention and may find some relief in seeing perhaps why it has been this way.