The Scholars Dilema?

Question

Can we ever know anything? Can we truly ever know anything outside of the confines of our learned paradigms. Whenever a paradigm shifts what we thought we knew is exposed as faulty. Is knowledge only a temporary tool to satiate our quest to solve the mysteries of life? Can we actually know.

Answer 1

paradigm is a nice word

Answer 2

Most western epistemology is based upon logic.

A deductive conclusion in logic is probability based.

Essentially you agree that you can not know absolutely but that based upon the arguments and the evidence that it is reasonable to assume that a sound and valid argument and its conclusion will result in the best knowledge one is able to manage about a particular subject.

The reason Logic is reliable is that all attempts to argue that logic is not reliable use logic for its argument.

Answer 3

There are no mysteries in life. There are only questions that have yet to be answered. With six billion people, the search for knowledge has many purposes. I was never interested in solving the mysteries of life. I could care less how the universe started, or the proverbial question of "why are we here?" I appreciate that some puzzle over these questions, but that is not information that is of any use to me or to the future.

Puzzling the mind with questions though is generally an avoidance of something else.

Answer 4

No.

And Yahoo saith:

"Tip: Be as specific and detailed as you can. Use any personal experience or knowledge you might have."

"You can use research to help support your answer."

"Hmm...it looks like you have a lot of punctuation."

"Oops! It looks like you have 1 misspelling(s)." The word Hmmm.

"Oops! It looks like you have 2 misspelling(s)."

"Please correct your spelling."

Answer 5

You can only know your limitations, because they don't depend on the external world, which may not even exist in reality. You just have to accept that all of the world is composed of shadows (phenomena) and that language creates ideas for its own sake, not because those ideas somehow represent anything.

Answer 6

Don't worry be happy anyways