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Posted by dorayme on 04/10/06 06:14
In article <Xns97A0C38704219arbpenyahoocom@69.28.186.121>,
Adrienne Boswell <arbpen@yahoo.com> wrote:
> Gazing into my crystal ball I observed dorayme
> <doraymeRidThis@optusnet.com.au> writing in news:doraymeRidThis-
> C797FC.08383710042006@news-vip.optusnet.com.au:
>
> >> ... In other words, there are things
> >> that you don't know that you don't know.
> >
> > "there are things that you do not know...."
> >
> > Like that there is an island called Tasmania.
> >
> > And further, you are suggesting, you may not know that you do not
> > know that there is an island called Tasmania.
> >
> > And when shall we stop? Is it then the case that you do not know
> > that you do not know that you do not know...
> >
> > In other words, is ignorance something quite bottomless?
> >
> > Why depress us all, Adrienne? It is more comforting to think
> > there is some limit, a floor to our mortal deficiencies.
> >
>
> On the contrary, it's nice to know that there are things you don't know
> that you don't know. These are sometimes the wild solutions to problems
> you think would never work, but for some reason they do. These are the
> times you slap your forhead and wonder why you didn't think of that
> before (because you didn't know you didn't know). But, the point is,
> that you did think of it, because you really DID know it all along.
It may be nice to know there are things you don't know. Not being
a god can please some people. But you are saying it is nice to
know that there are things you don't know that you don't know. I
am not quite sure how this might please a being? Or quite what it
means. There may well be things that you do not think you know
but which you do in fact know. This is something different. You
are not confusing the two are you?
--
dorayme
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