[WikiEN-l] Larry's text on the "Knowledge" article

Thu Apr 17 20:40:36 UTC 2003

There is a whole branch of philosophy that deal with the nature
of science this is generally named as epistemology....

Knowlege is not science as knowledge as no obvious relationship
with truth. For instance  you can know a lot about conspiracy theories
or religion (I don't mean to hurt anybody.) even if they are false.
But science research truth.

Most advanced views about science will conclude that  :

"Science simply whatever is generally regarded as true
 these days by most experts"

With a minus, that is methodology. (I don't feel to explain more here
it's to late  and to much work for me to be understandable about this in
English)

In the previous sentence you can replace science with truth that works.
What can we conclude.... that truth doesn't exist it's just an aim.

A lot of people will jump to the conclusion that I have written that facts
didn't exists.
That's wrong, facts exists and the search of truth shoud rely on facts .

I don't know why I write this here, but they could be a lot a of good
articles about
think kind of subject.

As we are lacking some good lawyers in Wikipedia contributor we may
also lack some good philosophers.

Ericd

----- Original Message -----
From: "Rotem Dan" <rotem_dan at yahoo.com>
To: <wikien-l at wikipedia.org>
Sent: Thursday, April 17, 2003 9:54 PM
Subject: [WikiEN-l] Larry's text on the "Knowledge" article

> Just stumbled upon the "Knowledge" article, and was
> hit by shock and amazement:
>
> "You come to a gas station and the gas station
> attendant tells you: "I just heard from someone that
> there was a big accident just around the big curve on
> State Route 99. .."
>
> "So let's get down to business, and ask: What is
> knowledge? How can I define the word or the concept,
> 'knowledge'?"
>
> "In other words, by the word "knowledge," we don't
> mean simply whatever is generally regarded as true
> these days by most experts"
>
> In other words, a
> western-americo-centric-article-written-solely-in-
> the-point-of-view-an-almost-obscure-philosopher..
> (If this sounds like trolling, then I apologize, I am
> pretty angry right now.. :| )
>
> With all the respect for wikipedia's founders, please
> do not allow these tribute pages on wikipedia.
> You-state-yourself-that-wikipedia-is-an-encyclopedia-,not
> an-"Ideapedia"-or-tribute-shrine-for-your-beloved-favorite-
> philosopher.
> (Again apologizing for the trolling attitude)
>
> Please consider leaving these type of texts as cites,
> or book references (drived by the usual
> wiki-consensus).
>
> Rotem
>
>
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